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Picture Surf: Photo Gallery for Blogs and Social Networks

PictureSurf Gallery is a Photo Gallery service that you can use with social networks and integrates with different blog platforms (WordPress at the moment). It started off as a small side project for Alan (founder) and eventually took off when bloggers started asking him if they could use it on their blogs.

Using the tool can double the ad impressions for blogs. The images are displayed on separate pages which increases pageviews. It also features drag and drop editing which eliminates coding jobs and search engine optimization.

Special Considerations

1) It was built with SEO considerations in mind from day one (good permalink and meta-data structure)

2) It is compatible with all major RSS feed readers (all JavaScript and Flash galleries disappear); this allows you to monetize RSS subscribers (who would otherwise never visit your blog) because clicking on a thumbnail takes them to your blog.

Picture Surf is a great gallery tool for bloggers. The tool is currently available for WordPress hosted blogs. Blogspot and other platform users will have to wait a bit in order to fully integrate Picture Surf. For the meantime using the gallery embed codes should do the trick.

Tags: Blogs, Picture Surf Gallery, Pictures, social networks

PicLits: Writing Inspiration Through Images

PicLits is a creative writing site that hopes to inspire its users by matching images with carefully selected keywords. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the story behind a picture. It’s a place where you can express yourself through images and words and share them with everybody.

You can choose from different images of different things. Below the image that you have chosen are sets of words that you can use to describe the image. The words are carefully selected to suit the image that you have chosen. You will be given different sets of words per image. You can drag nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and universal words to the picture and arrange them as you see fit. You can also write your own description or story by selecting the freestyle option.

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. All you need to do here is find the picture that inspire you and the words that are worth it.

Tags: images, Inspiration, PicLit, Pictures, Writing

Shareapic: Pays you for Sharing your Pic

Here is another way for you to make money online. Shareapic is another FREE image hosting website where you can upload unlimited pictures with no file size restrictions, get an embed code and display it in any site you like. The difference of Shareapic from other image hosts sites is that it pays its users for sharing their images. So, if are posting lots of pics in forums, MySpace or eBay, you can see how easy it is to earn quite a bit of money.

Shareapic payments are based on image views depending on their calculations of how much they will pay users per thousand views on a monthly basis. You can also place your Adsense pub account and Earn extra money from Google ads on your gallery pages. A widget is available that you can use to promote your Shareapic gallery. You can place it your blog sites or in your social networking site profile. You can also make money by referring users to join Shareapic, each time you refer a new user, you earn 10% of their image views FOREVER!

This move will attract more users thus attracting more advertising opportunities. Several sites have made this marketing move in order to get more market shares from giant competitors. If this type of marketing strategy continues to grow, there will be a lot of happy users making extra buck just for using a free service.

Tags: Earn Money, Make Money Online, Money, Pictures, Share, Shareapic