Google on Monday said that it had acquired Picnik, an online photo editing service that works with Internet applications from several Google competitors.”More than ever before, people are sharing and storing their photos online,” said Google product management director Brian Axe in a blog post. “But until recently, you had to edit your photos using client software on your computer. “The price that Google paid for Picnik was not disclosed.
While the Picnik acquisition doesn’t represent an immediate threat to Adobe Photoshop, the desktop photo editing standard for professionals, it’s yet another indication that online applications represent the future.Adobe, of course, already operates Photoshop. com, a pared-down version of its desktop photo editing application.
Picnik allows users to crop, resize, rotate, and alter online images in real-time, to apply a variety of filters, effects, and fonts, and to use browser extensions to make it easier to upload and edit images. It overlaps to some extent with Google’s Picasa service.
No immediate charges are expected as a result of the deal. But the extent to which Picnik interoperates with services like Facebook and Yahoo Mail remains open to question under Google’s management. Google may well want to maintain Picnik’s interoperability with non-Google services, but it remains to be seen whether Facebook and Yahoo find that idea appealing.
According to Axe, Google is working on integrating Picnik and on new features for the service.It’s also unclear how Google will deal with Picnik’s premium features, which are available for $25 per year. Google has tended to offer consumer-oriented services for free.
During its earnings call for investors last October, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that the company was again looking for new acquisitions and that Google in the past had acquired about one company every month. Picnik is Google’s ninth acquisition in the past eight months.Dark Reading has published an in-depth report on selecting, deploying, and managing database activity monitoring technology.
Okay, I have an online store and I need an eCommerce software solution that provides the following:
1. Writes HTML without added "fluff" coding that impedes optimal SEO
2. Easy WYSIWYG editor - again that doesn't add superfluous code
3. Graphic customization and template options
4. Payment features integrated with paypal and other merchant accounts
5. No commission fee based on sales
6. Integration with billing software like Quickbooks
7. Streamlined Order processing
8. Integration with USPS click and ship for shipping labels.
9. Inventory control
10. Automated drop shipping function.
I am currently using an eCommerce solution but it generates 10 x more html code than it needs and I've read this can be detrimental for SEO. It also has limitations as it integrates with Paypal because I cannot ship through it. I have to process orders through my site and process shipping through paypal. There are other features I don't like as well, all detrimental to SEO, like page name conventions are numbered rather than having the name of the page, and how things link to a default.asp page instead of the .com main home page. I am a graphic designer and my husband is a programmer so we can handle pretty complete software but we need something that does it all and WELL for Search Engine Optimization!!!
We have been pretty successful with our own SEO - we've done the backlinking and article submissions, small paid advertising in key markets and such. In 6 months we've gone from a 1 to a page rank of 3 on Google. But we can do better and don't want our eCommerce software to hinder us in any way.
Site is: www.babysproutnaturals.com
The page rank 3 is what I'm listed at when I go to www.page-rank-lookup.com. Google has only indexed 2 page of my pages (the home page and /category_s/36.htm) with external links with a total of 174 links (I know there are more that Google isn't counting yet).
by vicseo @ October 10, 2008 7:12 pm
Besides your domain name, what "generic" keywords query do you submit at google.com in order to bring up your PR3 website. I tried searching for "organic baby apparel," and your website is no where to be found within 500,000 or so search results? Who's providing the PR3 ranking?
Nevertheless, here's a preliminary review of your SEO metatags along with some suggested improvements:
1. Current:
Cloth Diapers, Organic Baby Apparel and Unique Gifts for Mommy and Baby! Live Natural Baby!
Improvement by eliminating spamdexed/duplicate entries and ad copy followed by a territory/business locator, i.e., city, state: Cloth Diapers, Organic Baby Apparel, Unique Gifts for Mothers, Natural, Non-Toxic | Fair Oaks, California
2. Current:
Improvement: Re-editing of this entry to no more than 45 words forming a singular sentence.
3. Current:
Improvement with removal of spamdexed/duplicate entries, use of compound and plural variations and finalization of all entries to no more than 15 'generic' keywords total:
Hopefully you will be able to incorporate these improvements which follow the Google.com guidelines in order to elevate your PR by use of effective SEO metatags.
Good luck!
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