You want your face on search results don't you? 

You have to make a google profile. And yes, we can get that going in SY since its already been on my mind. The only reason I didn't do it already is because...well...how hard do you want SY to be for you???

It might be as simple as having the google profile link field in the Symbiostock Profile and Extended Network Info and the theme could take it from there.

If you want to double check my research and give me a list of requirements, I can put them into SY theme for you.

I know less about it than you but if, as you are indicating this would help verify our own work and help with advertising I am all for it

In my experience previously social media means more people lifting your pictures without any regard to your copyright and spreading them around .  Just had another load removed from pin interest (deliberate misspelling as not advertising them

My ( very limited) understanding is that google "rewards" sites that have verified authors on google+

I think this will be useful if you plan on using blogs etc., to drive traffic to your site, and then onto your store.

If you just plan a stock store...maybe not useful, but no harm.  If you are having an interactive site ( blog etc., ) as well as the store then worth the effort.

If anyone knows more or has a better understanding PLEASE correct me.

Glenn

There's one guy in Timbuktu that claims he got four customers and social media is how he gets his clients.  There's always someone contrary, like people who claim they get good sales from Flickr. The other 98% find it's an invitation to rights abuse, theft and copyright confusion.

I have some social media accounts and I make it clear that I take photos. I have some links and some "pretty pictures" but I'm not going to put the best work up there to be assimilated into culture for free. I have a Pinterest account, also two photos. I think people who believe it's karketing to have your images used and stolen, are kidding themselves when they say, it might lead to a sale.

Maybe it has, but it's more likely it's only the unusual reports and rare sales that get reported, while the rest of the time, nothing happens, or photos are purloined and people don't sit and write about that? The comparison is this. People who come back from Las Vegas a winner, will tell all their friends and how happy they are, and repeat the story over and over. When people lose, they don't come back to brag about dumping thousands in the casino and coming home broke.

Someone who sells something on social media will toot their horn to no end, but the dark side doesn't get much play. Except places like this of course, where we have mostly honest discussions of the market and situations.

Social media gets and keeps your name in front of people, but i am still not convinced it actually translates into dollars.


If anyone has substantiated facts to the contrary, i would like to hear.