John Kavanagh : Indie Web Developer

Over the past couple of years I’ve noticed something about referrals: Google Images is very very valuable in attracting users to your website, and it’s equally much easier to get high rankings in the image search results than it is in native search results. The annoying thing about Google Images however, is the way it simply offers the image up to the viewer in a separate frame, making it easy for visitors to simply steal/view your image directly and leave again, never actually paying any attention to your site and potentially reducing your income if the site is monetised with advertisements, and removing any value to you of the visitor.

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I will happily admit that I’ve failed in trying to use WordPress twice before

With this URL having sat here with nothing more than a goofy image and an email link for almost a year, it had fallen completely off the Google radar (a quite righly too).  As things from moving house and starting a new job have calmed down now, it seemed like a good time to start a-new and make proper use of this new-fangled WordPress software. I will happily admit that I’ve failed in trying to use WordPress twice before, clearly never giving it the conviction and intent that it so obviously deserves/requires.

Now I just need to work out what all the buttons do…