Financial & Travel Musings

Sometimes I look for photos to illustrate a blog post but the problem is that it’s a terribly time consuming thing to do.

You might think that with google image search it would be a doddle to get great images for blogs. A few years ago it used to be and I had photos on nearly every blog entry. The problem these days is that there are just too many images around and very few of them are tagged. Without those tags, the image search features just don’t work these days whereas in the past they didn’t seem to need the image tags.

Net effect of that is that it can take an hour or more to find an image to illustrate a post which is just too long unless you were making serious money blogging or had unlimited free time.

However, that said, I am experimenting with a new illustrated blog over at On a Postcard which I consider an experimental blog for a number of reasons. First is that I’m trying to see if I can attract image searches to the blog. That’s not always easy these days as some spammy blogs try to pull in image searches by packing the image name with unbelievably long lists of key words. Second is that I’m looking at the search terms which hit posts and writing more articles in the same subject area. Unusually for a new blog (well, for a new one of mine anyway), it’s already starting to attract hits but ’tis early days yet for it.

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