I see better than I hear.  Nothing improves the visual aspect of a blog than having a quality photograph embedded in your post.  It keeps the reader’s attention and helps to compliment great content.

I just discovered a GREAT wordpress plugin that allow you to ad free photos from flickr to your wordpress posts.  It is called Photodropper.  It ads a “Photo Dropper Browse Photos” panel below your post main text editor panel in your Wordpress Admin.  Simply type a keyword that you are looking for (Pinot Noir) and it will search the largest photo directory in the world and display photos tagged with that keyword.   You can insert a small, medium or large picture in your post (this is a medium sized picture).

For more information about the plugin please visit here:

http://www.photodropper.com/ 

Enjoy the plugin and hope that this helps you add great photos to your niche posts and blogs

photo credit: b_d_solis

My “real” job is working as a professional pilot for a local corporation. I have many aspiring pilots who come up to me asking me, “How do I get a job in corporate aviation?” The answer is easy, network. It is fairly easy with some experience to get A job. The secret to getting a GREAT job is to know someone who will recommend you . So how does this apply to niche marketing?

In order to get relevant traffic that will be interested in your content, You HAVE to network. When you think about your niche, usually a name comes to mind. Someone who is the king or queen of your niche and has a closely related website or blog. That person should know your name. You need that “someone” who is connected on higher levels of traffic.

“Okay Paul I get it, so how do I do this?”

Well, just like networking in the corporate world you need to learn how to network in the wired world. Here are some ideas:

1. Leave useful, intelligent, relevant comments on related blogs in your niche and if possible leave your URL
2. Leave useful, intelligent, relevant posts and replies to posts on related forums in your niche.  If allowed place your blog URL in your signature of your user account on that forum.  Be careful about trying deliberately to redirect traffic to your site within the post to the forum.  Some moderators will try and ban you from that forum.
3. Join MyBlogLog and join communities with related subject matter to your niche
4. Join MyBlogLog and place the recent visitors widget on your site. When you get a chance, publicly message people who visit and thank them for visiting. It is similar to thanking people for visiting your store or retail location.
5. When your site has about 20-30 good quality posts and some regular subscribers. Start very kindly contacting people in your niche about exchanging links with them.
6. Add the email addresses of people in your growing niche network to your IM (google talk, yahoo, AOL, etc.) and occasionally chat with them. Not so much that it is annoying but enough that they will begin to know you by your first name.
7. Join Blogged (a blog directory) Add your website URL to your profile. Leave good reviews of content relevant sites. People in your niche will read your review, read your profile and visit your site. Use the MyBlogLog widget to contact them
8. If you can afford it (time and money) attend affiliate and blogger conventions (pick up a copy or subscribe to Revenue). You will be amazed at how much that will help you physically connect with fellow bloggers and affiliate managers for companies in your niche. Worth every penny (and vacation time).

I am sure there are many others. There is no one proven way to network. I would love if you shared with me some ways that you have found to network.