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I really like the idea of featuring holiday images at this holiday time. Yours is wonderful, Karen, BTW.
So Michele, if you’d like to hold my non-holiday bird shot off until January, past the holidays, that’s fine with me. I can always resend it (or another one) at a better time.
That’s fine with me. 🙂
@cascoly wrote:
great catch , these guys don’t hold still for long — if you do much camping in the high cascades you wouldn’t call these guys uncommon — they’ll steal a sandwich right out of your hand! on the backside lift at steamboat, these jays may fly right into your hand if you just hold it out as you ride the lift
Interesting! Actually, Steve, I have heard these birds called “camp robbers,” but I’d forgotten that. I’ll have to add it in to my descriptions of the three images I’ve posted of this bird.
However… they are only “common” in those high altitude locations. Most people who hang out at lower elevations have never seen or even heard of them.
Thanks for the reminder of that fun tidbit!
Here’s an update, just for general FYI, plus another question:
After tweeting 3 images today, I note that the hashtags being used in each tweet are appropriate. In other words, 2 images of a mammal resulted in #mammal being selected from the much larger list of promoted keywords (not #lizard or #bird, etc). And 1 image of a bird resulted in #bird being selected (not #mammal or #landscape, etc).
How does it know??? I guess it’s reading the keywords for each individual image. However it gets there, the system does seem to know what it’s doing and choose appropriate hashtags.
So the only issue is whether it’s including too many hashtags. Again I don’t know, but all those hashtags did spread my photo-dna around the Twitterverse quite nicely. So maybe it’s not a bad thing after all.
After studying hashtags a bit this afternoon, I revamped my keywords to include most of the previous ones plus these: photooftheday, photography, photo, image, stockimage, stockphoto.
Anybody spot something obvious like those that I’m missing?
@jsfoto wrote:
A very nice image, Martha. And I am also totally impressed by the detailed descriptions you are adding to your photos … almost short stories, which for sure will be very interesting for buyers.
Thank you for that wonderful compliment! I really appreciate it.
Sometimes I do manage to include what’s almost a short story in the description. Other times (when I’m getting tired of the process), not so much. But those descriptive details almost always get me to “solid green” on Yoast, and most of the time I enjoy writing them. I’ve even gone back occasionally to an image I Yoasted when I was tired and found a way to punch it up a bit.
BTW… last Saturday morning, I posted an announcement of my new website on my Facebook page and asked my friends there to “Like” it if they felt motivated to do so. Three days later, the home page has 146 likes, 9 people have tweeted about it, and about that same number have shared it on their own pages. It’s so nice to have kind friends! 🙂
@leo wrote:
hi there
The hashtags are taken from your promoted keywords. The only reason to include an image or not is simply preference – submitting the image to twitter stands to get it searchable by a new dynamic, but its yet another image that could be stolen. So hence you can choose link, thumbnail, or full image, depending on your preference.
I’m not sure that its considered spammy to have that many hashtags. I should catch up on the subject, and verify other features are still working as twitter tends to change its api occassionally.
Thanks, Leo, for that quick response. You’re good! 🙂
I really love being able to automate this process. That is so cool. But… is there a way to override having all those promoted keywords in every single tweet? They won’t all be appropriate for all my images. Those that feature a scene or a plant, for example, are not “wildlife” or “mammal”.
If not, I may have to go in and redo the promoted keywords to make them more generic. That’s do-able, so please just let me know if I should do that with robo-tweeting in mind. EDITED: I am going in to make those changes, with Twitter in mind. No need to bother responding to that question!
I’m willing to risk some theft for the greater exposure, for now anyway. May change my mind on that later. At least it carries my watermark.Thanks so much for doing this, Michele. The FB page is looking great!
I’ll volunteer this one for an image of the week:
http://bestnaturestock.com/image/clarks-nutcracker-pinyon-pine-stock-photo/
This Clark’s Nutcracker (Nucifraga columbiana) was hanging out in Dinosaur National Monument, which overlaps the states of Colorado and Utah. The tree he’s shown in is a Pinyon pine (Pinus edulis), also called a Colorado pine.
This uncommon species has a limited range in the high pine forests of the Rocky Mountains of North America. He’s a member of a large family that includes crows, jays, and magpies. Some people call him a Clark’s Crow or a Woodpecker Crow.
Today I’m plunging in to figure out how to tweet an “image of the day” kind of thing. I’ve followed Leo’s fine guidance above and successfully tweeted two of my images. (Without realizing I’d done it on the first one, actually.)
On the second tweet, I knew it was going to go instantly, as soon as I selected and updated the image. And it did. Here’s that tweet: https://twitter.com/authormarks/status/400353550280032256/photo/1
So far, so good.
But what I don’t understand is why I’ve got so many hashtags at the top. All I put in the hashtag setup box was: wildlife, but here’s what it says:
http://bestnaturestock.com/image/coyote-upright-stock-photo/ … #WILDLIFE #SYMBIOSTOCK #IMAGE #MAMMAL #NEW MEXICO #NORTH AMERICA #SOUTHWEST #UNITED STATES pic.twitter.com/8OILMbTjtw
Can anybody tell me why it’s including so many hashtags? Where are they all coming from? This seems to fit Twitter’s description of “spam”, and I’d like to be a good tweeter and just have a couple, not eight.
And another question: most of the others from this group who I’ve seen tweeting only have a link included, not an image. Is there a reason for not including an image? Do people get offended by them? Or is it something else?
Thanks in advance for advice!
@marthamarks wrote:
@Semmick Photo wrote:
The focus keyword is only to check the SEO, SEO is not affected if you leave it blank.
Wow! Despite Yoasting 1330+ images to date, I didn’t know that. It’s good to know, but I’ll continue to designate it with each image. By now, it’s habit. 🙂
Thanks for the info, Ron.
I like the idea of just providing Michele our favorite image and letting her mix them up as she sees fit.
Good way to showcase our best work.
Bravoooooooo!
Congrats to Andre, Cracker Clips, and Ron. You guys are inspiring!
@jsnover wrote:
Either I’m going batty or something has changed!
I doubt you’re going batty. Credit gremlins in the system. 🙂
@cathyslife stockphotos wrote:
You can use Fetch, it works similar to Filezilla. And you can download Text Wrangler for mac, it’s free too I believe. Editing with Word would not be a good idea. We’ve tried at work and Word inserts invisible characters for some strange reason that have to be stripped out when the copy then goes into code layout.
Thanks for that good info, Cathy. I’ll leave Word out of it.
Will tackle this project tomorrow.
Yes, Jo Ann, I do think that will work.
Muchas gracias!!!
