Instant Photos

One of the coolest plugins for Wordpress has to be the Photo Dropper Flickr plugin. I have just uploaded it and am playing around with it.

Creative Commons License photo credit: Watergeus

This tool lets you search millions of Flickr photos and add them to your Wordpress posts with just 1 click and without having to leave your blog. The plugin puts itself right into your write post page and uses a search box to find relevant photos, allowing you to add them to your post in small, medium, or large format with one click! Everyone knows that providing images really makes your posts more interesting.

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I almost forgot the mention the best part, attribution links are automatically added underneath the images to comply with the Creative Commons license rules! Gotta love tools that keep you protected legally.


Creative Commons License photo credit: Robert Whitlock

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by search_junkie  |  2 Comments »

Firefox Tools: Tiny URL for Firefox

I found this great add on for Firefox that integrated Tinyurl.com functionality. This add on lets you select a url and then turn it into a tinyurl via the Tools> TinyUrl menu in your Firefox browser. This is really convenient, especially if you are a Twitter junkie like myself.

TinyUrl Firefox Add On

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But and even easier way to use this wonderful add on is to utilize the right click feature. This allows you to right click on any link and gives you the option to create a tiny url for the link or for the page.

TinyURL Right Click

This is great and yet another shining example of why Firefox is hands down the best browser to use, especially for professional search marketers! With all of the SEO, Web development, and other functional add ons and plugins you cannot go wrong. So if you want to save yourself a ton of time use Firefox, and keep an eye out for my Firefox Tools series on my favorite add ons and plugins for Firefox!

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Posted on February 16th, 2008 by search_junkie  |  4 Comments »

Let It Snow Live Search, Let It Snow

It looks like Live Search has added a VERY nifty feature for skiers and snowboarders that allows you to view the local conditions at resorts via Instant Answers integration into their organic SERPS. Check out a search for whistler, it shows a onebox like result that shows the status, new snow, base depth, surface condition, lifts open, and links to a more detailed full report, resort site, and a link to the live search map of the resort. Now THIS is the type of thing that search engines were invented for! Kudos to the team at Live search, it seems like a long time since they have come out with something this useful and interesting.

Live Search Ski Resort OneBox

No new snow? Well, I guess that is par for the course in sunny southern California!

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by search_junkie  |  No Comments »

Local Search Engine Optimization

You would be surprised to find out how many businesses have not yet claimed their Google Local account. But you would be even more surprised if you realized how weak local search algos are at this point in the game. The search engines still have a difficult time providing good local search results. They still rely on databases owned by the major print yellow page firms to populate their indexes. That and the fact that many small business owners are not too hip to the game yet combines for some questionable results at times.

Local search engine optimization is still a wild west of sorts.  There are small things that you can do to enhance yor local listings like adding your local keyword before your company name and getting people to write reviews. But even then there is no telling how well you will place. Local seems to be a big part of the future of search and Greg Sterling of Search Engine Land recently did a fantastic post on the future of local search that pretty much sums it all up! Despite all of the fun and useful things in store for local search, the search engines need to come up with a better way for small, un-Internet savvy, business owners to list their businesses and they need to get the algo dialed in better.

Posted on February 10th, 2008 by search_junkie  |  No Comments »