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Google Author Rank – test it!

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I’m impatient to get that all important Google Author Rank and have been twitching at the time it’s taking to seed through.

My fabulous colleague Claire Dunford, who writes the Raw Discourse blog, sent me a very useful link to something called the ‘Google Structured Data Testing tool’: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

You simply Input a link to one of your posts and it will spill out a preview – if your pic shows against the preview, you’ve set up your Google+/blog connection successfully.

Good to know I’m doing something right!

By Carole Scott

 

Blogging Help, Photography, Photoshop Elements

How to create a watermark brush in Photoshop Elements. | Everyday Elements

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I was thinking this morning about the issue of making sure my photos are protected now that I’m sharing them on a blog.

A quick Google search is always a great place to start and I found this incredibly helpful step by step instruction from Everyday Elements.

How to create a watermark brush in Photoshop Elements. | Everyday Elements.

What I now want to know from photography bloggers out there is how do I come up with a way of doing this in bulk or quickly when I have a selection of images that I want to upload to a blog. It’s a great process but it’s time consuming, particularly since I have big files and already have to spend the time reducing the size of them before uploading to my blog!

Anyone with any answers, please help!

P.S. Just found the ‘process multiple files’ function in Elements. So pleased, as it has the option to add a Watermark and resize, all in one handy place. Here’s one of the pics I just processed. It does spoilt the image a bit, so perhaps I need to make it less opaque….

Blog001

Second attempt…

Bagan01

That’s better. What do you think?

By Carole Scott

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Google Author Rank: kept me up late!

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I have it on good authority that ensuring one’s Google Author Link is in a profile and post is absolutely vital. But boy, trying to get it in the right place isn’t straight forward unless you have a friend/colleague/wise person to tell you how!

For anyone who has followed complicated instructions on the Google badge page or on the WordPress forum, let me simplify life for you.

Go to the Text (or HTML) tab of your blog post or profile page. Just pop this coding in your profile and on each post, making sure you put in the long string of numbers from your very own Google+ profile where I have put UNIQUEGOOGLEPLUSID. To find the long string of numbers, just go to your Google+ profile page and copy the numbers at the end of the URL. Then put your name where I have YOURNAME – oh, and don’t forget, put your name in Title Case, otherwise it’ll look like you’re shouting!

Thanks to RainbowClaire for this!

By <a href=”https://plus.google.com/u/0/UNIQUEGOOGLEPLUSID?rel=author“>YOUR NAME</a>

By Carole Scott