MetaSmart Seminars: Protect your work, make money

T-Pain performs at Hot 97 Summer Jam, in East Rutherford New Jersey. July 1, 2008

T-Pain performs at Hot 97 Summer Jam, in East Rutherford New Jersey. July 1, 2008

June 23, 2009 – The New York installment of METAsmart, was a huge success. The seminar series, which teaches photographers how meta data can be used to protect copyright, streamline workflow and increase sales, featured presentations by metadata expert David Riecks, Photoshelter founder & SEO expert Allen Murabayashi, and a panel discussion by meta-savvy photographers Lou Manna, Garfield Hall and yours truly.

The presentations were so good that even I learned a lot (and I was on the panel).

DID YOU KNOW

  • Google returns 140 characters of your page description before cutting it off.
  • Google does include the ALT tags of images in search results but will not read the image metadata.
  • The copyright symbol does not display correctly in all photo captioning software. Write out “copyright” instead.
  • Including the original file name in the metadata can help you determine which image the client has even if they’ve renamed it.
  • It is illegal to remove the copyright information from a photo’s metadata.

IF YOU MISSED THE NEW YORK SEMINAR

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What have you learned about metadata?

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10 Responses to “MetaSmart Seminars: Protect your work, make money”

  1. Chris Owyoung says:
    June 23, 2009 at 9:30 am

    New blog post: MetaSmart Seminars: Protect your work, make money — http://tinyurl.com/nogdvf

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  2. artistjanebush says:
    June 23, 2009 at 9:43 am

    Very informative! :) RT @chrisowyoung: New blog post: MetaSmart Seminars: Protect your work, make money — http://tinyurl.com/nogdvf

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  3. Bryan Kremkau says:
    June 23, 2009 at 5:57 pm

    Very cool info! I need to start being better about adding alt tags for my images. I should know better, I’m a friggin’ web designer lol.

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  4. MoneyGettingIdeas says:
    June 23, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    RT @chrisowyoung New blog post: MetaSmart Seminars: Protect your work, make money — http://tinyurl.com/nogdvf

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  7. Maynard Head says:
    February 15, 2010 at 12:23 am

    Search engine optimization is always new to me. I found this post very interesting. Very good source of information.

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  8. Shalon Rabal says:
    May 29, 2010 at 1:57 pm

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  9. Damion Picarello says:
    June 23, 2010 at 4:10 am

    Great blog, third time I’ve been . Keep up the quality posting, I’ll be here when I can.

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  10. chris says:
    June 23, 2009 at 6:17 pm

    You and me both Bryan, you and me both.

    I was shocked at how simple some Search Engine Optimization stuff was.

    I was also horrified at how much we photographers have to keep track of – I’m mean, I should have shirt that says “I’d rather be shooting” in huge letters on the front right now!

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