Zenphoto – doing an update the right way, manually ..

After experimenting with various photo blog kind of interfaces (including the use of Gallery2 and other plugins that work along with WordPress), I finally found something that I liked – namely, Zenphoto, that I have started to use to build a photo site called Tourist Photos (photos from different tourist locations) (primarily to find an [...]

Search Engine Optimization Tips and Tricks – Learn how to increase visibility in Search Engines – Part 7

The previous post (optimizing sections inside your post structure) talked about some assorted steps you can to optimize your post (such as permalinks, bread crumbs (example, the Breadcrumb NavXT plugin), speeding up your site, and so on). This post looks at optimizing the images on your site for better SEO. I can just hear some [...]

Optimization of Gallery2 – A photo album

Gallery2, located at this site, is a fairly useful and customizable photo album organizer. Gallery2 would be available at most hosting companies (for example, in my case, I host a Gallery2 installation, http://ashisha.com/gallery, which contains upwards of 4400 photos, and is hosted at HostMonster). The Gallery 2 provides a fairly customizable interface with many modules, [...]

Promoting your Photo Blog (contd..)

An earlier post covered some tips for promoting a photo blog. This post covers some more tips that I learned while researching this topic of trying to promote a photo blog. 1. Ensure that your site does not have a robots.txt file that could prevent the search engine crawlers from indexing your site 2. Ensure [...]