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Sunday, April 19, 2020

IMAGES! - Jon Dykstra- Fat Stacks Blog #Best Education Page #Online Earning

IMAGES! - Jon Dykstra- Fat Stacks Blog



yeah I do use a lot of images filling
out the alt text fields very
descriptively I think helps a lot and
don't try to manipulate like you know
don't don't just putting keywords that
aren't related to the image I just
described the image that's it I just
here's the image here's what here's what
it's about so that's number one
obviously like optimize them so that
they're they're pretty small files like
when I started with an image site I was
uploading just that where 5,000 pixels
flied and like 2 megabytes which was
insane and it would take forever to load
and I wonder why why doesn't my site
load fast it was like you learn right so
now I you know I resize everything no
bigger than a thousand pixels wide and
optimize them down to like 150 200
kilobytes even that's probably a bit big
the latest development with image and
SEO which I like is what IP format for
images it doesn't work in Safari but for
Chrome and I think Firefox it shows up
that format loads and it is really fast
and you can get web P with like short
pixel plug-in I think image if I also
does the same ease oeq has a site speed
thing they they will do WebP you format
so there's lots about there's lots of
options to do that but and basically
they can actually turn existing images
into that format they load faster it
seems to be that the latest format so
that that's a big one and I've done that
across all my sites in terms of you know
some images I like images because
especially on visual sites because they
can attract a lot of links mainly
because people rep them often and source
link it so that that's worked out what
all in terms of link building because
other people just taken I don't care
they could have in terms of you know
another question I get asked a lot is I
hate left and right aligning back when
there was only desktop it was great
right you could you could do these nice
you know left the line 300 pixel wide
and major then text would wrap around it
and look cool and all that don't do that
with mobile it makes a total mess what
you end up with is the
end up with like a real thin strip of
text on the right or you know and tablet
who knows what it looks like so these
days what I do is I just go full-size
like on desktop it's the full width of
the column which is usually like
anywhere from like 700 to 800 pixels and
then in mobile it'll take up the full
the full width as well you know getting
me that weird text wrapping I think
those days are done
it's I do the same with that by the way
I don't align and it's left or right I
just like go Center and full width so
yeah but that's pretty much it use them
use images I think don't steal them
though copyright trolls are out there in
force and use the stock image sites take
your own photos that's that's the best
thing to do I'm telling you if you if
you're into like I think I know Doug you
do Amazon affiliate stuff buy the
products you're writing about and you
can literally take 30 images of your own
oh you use an iPhone they're not the
best images in the world I'm certainly
not a pro photographer but I'll take
them and they're good enough and I think
they do two things first off you get a
lot of unique content but second of all
your readers see that's like oh this
person actually has the product and use
the product to hear the images because
they're not like the nice fancy
professional photos from the virtual and
Amazon so I do that quite a bit as well
I love being able to use my own photos
stock photo sites are great I use
shutterstock but there's some free ones
out there very cool and I learned
something here which is obvious the
right aligning or left aligning of
images so I still do that a little bit
but yeah you're a hundred percent right
I definitely have seen it where I have
poorly formatted for like a phone or
just a different display that's not like
super wide so I kind of remember to
change that and then yeah another note
for the like not custom images but
images that you have taken yourself
I think iPhones are pretty darn good
these days I mean they're way better
than like the cameras that I had that
we're very expensive you know ten years
ago and if you can get the lighting like
right usually your pictures going to be
pretty
good and it looks authentic it looks
real people are trust people will trust
you were content a little bit more if
they're like oh they have the you know
product right there so they're good and
for me
like I guess you've done some like some
video and you have like camera gear and
all this stuff like I just like the gear
too and I'd like to take picture so it's
kind of a fun way to actually like mix
the Hobby with you know a way to make
money and it all works together well so
yeah if you're into it it's it's great
lucky you I'm not particularly into the
end of the gear but I have no choice but
to be yeah what what is it that you
don't like just curious figuring it out
I'm not very good for reading
instructions I don't like trying to
figure out any stuff and then you know
all the different but the
post-production stuff the editing and
it's very very time consuming tedious I
don't care for any of it I like writing
you know I got into this because I liked
writing I wrote all my stuff for years I
still like writing I still write but I
realized that podcasts and videos are
enormous ly popular and and so I got to
play ball but at the end of the day for
me it's writing I like to write so

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