Picasa Uploading Picture � Server rejected

Here's the solution tip/advice to your problem. my photo blog won't upload photos! all images are being rejected by the server. any other solutions?

The problem has nothing to do really with which editor you are using as some forum replies may suggest. That may fix the problem for one or two images but you will be back in the same boat soon unless you deal with an issue at Picasa..

The problem is that the photo album at Picasa where your photos have been getting stored is now full and Picasa, for whatever reason, has not automatically generated a new album. The best thing to do is go to Picasa and manually create a new album then upload a couple pictures to it. After that you should be able to start uploading images again and will be able to until that album is full. Then you repeat the process.

The worst case scenario is that you have to upload your images to Picasa directly then in the New Editor when you want to upload an image you go to that Picasa album and get the image you just uploaded, but I have not had to do that so far except with the 1st image or two to get the ball rolling.

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Answers: add Pinterest Follow button on WordPress/Blogger/Joomla!

Here's the tutorial on How to add a Pinterest Follow button.

For webmasters, Pinterest now offers pin it button for websites. It will help your readers to pin content just by clicking the button right from your page. So your readers will able to pin your posts and pages to their pinboards without leaving your site. As it is a virtual pinboard exist online, Pinterest will always do crawling for images or videos when someone share a link to their pinboards.

Therefore if your posts or pages contain images or videos, you are ready to be pinned. But if you don't have images or videos on your posts, Pinterest button still allows you to specify external image or video to be shared when users pin your content. But the main problem is, you can't just implement Pin it button on your site.

Pin it button does not crawl implemented page automatically as the Pin it bookmarklet do and you need to configure it individually. So official Pin it button always needs to specify exact URL of post and URL of the image or video on the page. But when it comes to Blogger/WordPress or Joomla, you can't edit each and every page to add Pin it button individually. So you can't make use of official Pin it button in Blogger. Eventhough you are able to edit your pages and configure Pin it button individually, it will a waste of time if you have many number of pages on your site. But here you will find an alternative way to pin your content which derived from Pinterest Pin it bookmarklet. So Blogger users still able to let their readers to pin content from their blogs. However it has no associated button count. Interested? Let's implement it in your blog.

Button code:

Below are a list of available buttons provided by Pinterest on their website.

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<a href="http://pinterest.com/USERNAME/"><img src="http://passets-cdn.pinterest.com/images/follow-on-pinterest-button.png" width="156" height="26" alt="Follow Me on Pinterest" /></a>

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<a href="http://pinterest.com/USERNAME/"><img src="http://passets-cdn.pinterest.com/images/pinterest-button.png" width="78" height="26" alt="Follow Me on Pinterest" /></a>

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<a href="http://pinterest.com/USERNAME/"><img src="http://passets-cdn.pinterest.com/images/big-p-button.png" width="61" height="61" alt="Follow Me on Pinterest" /></a>

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<a href="http://pinterest.com/USERNAME/"><img src="http://passets-cdn.pinterest.com/images/small-p-button.png" width="16" height="16" alt="Follow Me on Pinterest" /></a>

How to add code to website:

Adding to Blogger
Go to Layout (or Design in the old interface).
Click Add A Gadget and select HTML/Javascript gadget.
Copy a code above and paste it inside the content box.
Replace �USERNAME� with your Pinterest username.
Convert Html code here:
Save.

Adding to WordPress
Go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Available Widgets.
Drag Text widget into a sidebar.
Paste in the code.
Replace �USERNAME� with your Pinterest username.
Convert Html code here:
Save.

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VIDEO � Google Image Search � SEO

Here's informative video, Peter Linsley's presentation on Google Image Search, originally delivered at SMX West in February, 2009.

Watch video here:

Peter Linsley of Google Images shares some simple yet important image optimization tips that might help you get more traffic from image search engines:

1. Users prefer large, high-quality images (high-resolution, in-focus).
2. Users are more likely to click on quality thumbnails in search results. Quality pictures (again, high-res and in-focus) often look better at thumbnail size.
3. Distracting features such as loud watermarks, text over the image, and borders are likely to make the image look cluttered when reduced to thumbnail size.

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