Viper Design

That's a good question, one I've been pondering about whilst doing local citations. They usually email you to verify the account and I don't want to use the clients email and ask them to get involved as that's not very professional. Thought about just setting up a default gmail one for all of them, what do you think?

Why don't you make it easy and just sell them on themeforest or such place? They take the hassle out of it - for a small price.

It's always a good idea to blog about other related things, not just your own work. Find out what's trending in your industry and write something compelling about it. People tend to get bored if you're just talking about yourself all the time. Good luck!

I'd be worried about the file size of a long video slowing a site down. Usually a looped video will be fine. Do you think a long one will actually make a difference to your clients?

The OP is asking when the PR toolbar will next get updated, not when a site will get crawled. This is usually every 3 months but I don't know when the last one was as I don't follow it anymore.

Sorry I didn't read your post in its entirety. Yes there are many sites that do this already but don't assume this means there are any open source ones. They have probably paid tens of thousands to get theirs built and customised.

clikpic.com offer a ready made yet customisable photo website - ok it costs arounf £35pa but that is very good value for what you get.

Nice. Do you find the glossy screen a problem?

I'm running a 7 year old Mac G4 933mhz and it handles just about everything I throw at it. Quality workhorse

Not sure how accurate this is but http://www.statowl.com/search_engine_market_share_trend.php shows about 2%. According to several sites I host this is more like 1%. I'm open to be proved wrong but I can't see 15% being anywhere near accurate.

But does anyone actually use MSN for searching? I bet it's a tiny %age

You're not going to get images for minute amounts with licenses. iStock is for designers who purchase images to use for their clients work primarily. If you buy one of the extended licenses it will be in your name but also cost a lot more. Read their FAQ for more info.

In My Opinion Well someone who does it for a living is going to get better results and faster than if you do it yourself when you don't know what you're doing!

Personally I still add them as it only takes a few seconds and some search engines still use them. Google may one day begin using them again you never know! Just ensure they are relevant to the page you are working on.

www.istockphoto.com is one of the largest libraries and images go from around £1 - £15 each.