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  • #11289
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    Tested & passed on GoDaddy.com.

    #5801
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    @ariene wrote:

    I’m starting worry. Google doesn’t like me or what am I doing wrong? Site is set up since February, (over 1700) images have unique titles and descr., site maps sent… After 3 months none of my images are indexed, zero, null, nothing… Something must be wrong with my site. All you said above is done.
    All files are bright yellow.

    Who is your web host?

    Did you (or your site) block spiders and/or bots from accessing your website?

    What does your .htaccess file look like?

    Did you create a robots.txt file? If so, what does it look like?

    See here for more info:

    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2387297?hl=en

    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156449?hl=en

    http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/block-bots-with-htaccess.shtml

    #11257
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    I see a price of $150 for a zip file.

    #11253
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    I am wondering, what made you decide to start your pricing at $1.00?

    #11229
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    @hlehnerer wrote:

    Is it possible that Google only is indexing the title and description, but not the keywords?

    I believe that is true.

    @hlehnerer wrote:

    Would it help to add the keyword also in the description field?

    Yes, I believe so, but I believe that it should be in a sentence format. In other words, I don’t think that Google likes if it finds just a bunch of keywords that are not used in a sentence.

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    @leo wrote:

    I’d love an opinion: I’d like to *require* people to use imagemagick for the sake of simplicity. Thoughts?

    Sounds like a good idea, but it seems that some hosting sites don’t provide imagemagick.

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    @shotupdave wrote:

    While in religous school and studying the scriptures in Hebrew. I never heard The Nephilim as fallen angels. Only in the re-writing of the bible by later early Christians did they become fallen angels.

    I’m not sure where you got this from, but the word Nephilim is in the original Hebrew text of the Old Testament. The word Nephilim is actually a Hebrew word. While most names in the Bible are transliterated or translated (such as Jesus), in most Bibles this Hebrew word was left in the original Hebrew.

    For example, the NIV states

    Genesis 6:4
    “The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.”

    Here is the original Hebrew text of Genesis 6:4:

    Genesis 6:4
    הַנְּפִלִים הָיוּ בָאָרֶץ בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם וְגַם אַחֲרֵי־כֵן אֲשֶׁר יָבֹאוּ בְּנֵי הָאֱלֹהִים אֶל־בְּנוֹת הָאָדָם וְיָלְדוּ לָהֶם הֵמָּה הַגִּבֹּרִים אֲשֶׁר מֵעוֹלָם אַנְשֵׁי הַשֵּׁם׃

    As you can see (since you stated that you studied the scriptures in Hebrew), the first word (on the right in bold) is the word Nephilim.

    The root of the word comes from the Hebrew word “nafal”, which means “to fall” (see here: http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?strongs=H5307&t=NASB).

    Another clue that shows that they were fallen angels is the term “sons of God” used in the same verse. This is a Hebrew term (b’ney Elohiym) that is used in other places in the Bible (Job 1:6, Job 2:1, Job 38:7) and is always translated as “angels”.

    I would like to write more, but I have a meeting that I need to attend…

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    @leo wrote:

    I got a bit older and I learned “Oh, ok, Pharoah didn’t realy survive the flood and go back to an empty kingdom…he died in the Red Sea”…

    I don’t believe that the Bible indicates if Pharaoh was killed or not.

    @leo wrote:

    So I went to see the new Noah movie with a similar expectation – some embellishment but still a generally accurate-to-account movie.

    Most accounts of the movie that I have read indicate that the movie added a great deal of “artistic license” to the original story.

    You can read more here:

    http://time.com/42274/ken-ham-the-unbiblical-noah-is-a-fable-of-a-film/

    @leo wrote:

    Apparently there were rock monsters before the flood…

    That is another “embellishment” by the movie. The “rock monsters” are supposed to be the Nephilim (see Genesis 6:4). The Hebrew word Nephal means “to fall” and Nephilim means “fallen ones”. In other words, the Nephilim were fallen angels. The Hebrew term “sons of God” (used in Genesis 6:2 and 6:4) also means “angels”. These fallen angels came to Earth and fornicated with human women. This corrupted the “seed” of man and before long, the human race was in peril. This is why God created the Flood. You can read about this in “The Book of Enoch” (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/boe/boe009.htm), an extra-Biblical book.

    @leo wrote:

    …this movie doesn’t actually reflect anyone’s beliefs —

    I have to disagree. The movie was named “Noah”, which is obviously based upon the character in the Old Testament. If they wanted to make a secular movie, they could have easily just called it “The Flood” or something similar.

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    @shelma1 wrote:

    In my case people can buy one of my 5-credit vectors at iStock for as little as $8…

    Yes, but in order to buy your 5-credit vector, I believe that you would need to buy a 10-credit package, which costs $19.99.

    #10517
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    @thp wrote:

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    @thp wrote:

    According to Google’s PageSpeed Insights for instance, my mini pics could be compressed by a further 50-60% per pic!

    Yes, but will they look good? You can always compress an image to the extreme, but then it will look pixelated and most buyers would be put off by the image.

    Shazam – as I said above “an image optimiser script to losslessly compress them” – thats the point, images can be loselessly compressed without any visible degradation. of course we don’t want bad looking images. But we do want a lightning fast user experience, and a great Google PageSpeed score which will help with page rank.

    At the moment, Symbiostock uses JPGs, which is a lossy compression. If you want a lossless compression, then Symbiostock would need to be rewritten to use a different image format (such as PNG).

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    @thp wrote:

    According to Google’s PageSpeed Insights for instance, my mini pics could be compressed by a further 50-60% per pic!

    Yes, but will they look good? You can always compress an image to the extreme, but then it will look pixelated and most buyers would be put off by the image.

    #10433
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    My understanding is that the words in your description are the most important and they are the most important to Google.

    #10054
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    I’m not sure where the game stands at this point. It seems to have died off.

    As such, here is a new Tweet to try and keep this going:

    https://twitter.com/ShazamImages/status/443847801508999168

    #10039
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    I think that #RT is a good idea as well, but (if I am not mistaken) I believe that @symbiostock is automated / programmed to look for #RETWEET

    #10220
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    Embedding images could put a huge strain on your web server. I’m not sure that the host companies would appreciate that.

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