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Just a quick note for anyone who missed it …

I got together with a couple of colleagues to put together a Digital Garage Sale last weekend. Part of the motivation was to offset some of the costs of the new site!

It proved extremely popular with more than 1500 people calling in for the freebies, and a heap of those grabbing a bargain! You can check it out at the link below … and there’s three free (hot) downloads there for you … no cost, no registration required … just for looking it over!

http://www.Just4Photographers.com

We’re going to leave it up for a little while longer, so if you missed it, check it out now!

For all the existing OzImages Members, your Portfolio and Profile pages are now ready. We will probably do a bit of tweaking before we go live — any suggestions? — but for now they are ready if you want to start submitting a few links around the place.

I’d suggest you check them here and make any changes in the Members Area on OzImages, then go to work on the ‘Share’ button. Pick your preferred social bookmarking sites from the list, and add a link and description for each.

If you set up some new social media accounts, remember to save your login details for later, because you’ll want to repeat the process for your other pages as they come online!

We’ve added a Bookmarking button to the top of every page on the new website … please put it to good use!

Our existing Member photographers should bookmark any of their own content pages — portfolio, personal website, lightboxes, galleries etc as they come online, to start building backlinks and pagerank. We’ll be doing a lot of this anyway, but many hands make light work … and get resutls for everyone a whole lot sooner.

The button gives you access to literally hundreds of social media sites … so please feel free to bookmark your pages o nas many as you can.

Other visitors are most welcome to share and bookmark as well … if you can add links to any pages of interest to a couple of your favourite services, it will help us get established !

Thanks in advance!

As the new websites comes on line there are going to be a lot of opportunities for our existing photographers … and anyone else who might be interested … to help us ‘get established’.

A lot of it will come in the form of link submissions and bookmarking, and we’ll be posting specific step-by-step tasks here that our photographers can complete for their own account. It will all be optional, and we’ll be doing a lot of it on your behalf, but if you can drop in and lend a hand from time to time, it could make a huge difference.

When you crunch the numbers, a small input from all our Members could generate some really impressive results …

1. All our Members will have about 8 ’standard’ pages on the new site … if every Member was to submit each of those to 100 different sites using various free resources we’ll link to … we’d generate over 350,000 backlinks … which would seriously incrase the Pagerank that Google and Yahoo will assign our new website.

2. This is where it get’s interesting, between them our Members have published more than 6500 individual Lightboxes and Galleries … if each of those were to be put through the same process, we’d have another 600,000 backlinks set up, giving us a total of well over 1 million!

I’m realistic enough to know that probably isn’t going to happen but if we could achieve even 10% of that over the next few months, the new website could easily out rank the old OzImages site before we even launch!

Stay tuned!