Can you use the word shiet without being offensive?

byDKMade

667 followers

Updated 6 years ago

Just went into SiteContent to finish up and publish an article I have been working on and I had a little surprise which was really quite cool, so cool I had to write this Blog.

First I have to start with my opinion on the new "image" tab in the SiteContent Dashboard. I would like it if the window in which you use the image tab was a little bigger but for now, I have learned to live with it. I really like the second part where the next window pops up after you choose your image. You can set its destination, fill in the ALT text, image description, crop the image if needed, they really covered all you need.

I have however found a flaw. In a lot of the other "free' image websites, I could type in "Pilot ball-point pen" and in some form or another, I would be given numerous images that were a pilot ball-point pen or have a picture with the pilot ball-point pen in it. The SiteContent image generator does not do this, in fact, I get some really random picture that comes up. I typed in "dog collars" and in the results, I got lots of dogs and a select few wore a collar which would be fine but then I got this rather attractive lady in a rather short, very tight, one-piece black dress looking for more than a night on the town. I made sure that I typed in dog collars and not what would I wear a dog collar for and I indeed did enter the aforementioned search of dog collars. I understand technology is not perfect and this was a rather pleasing mistake wink wink, nudge nudge, but I tried several other searches and found this to be a constant thing.

Maybe this was the fault of the artist trying to get more coverage of their photo and entering a sort of off the wall descriptions or maybe it was simply an indexing issue. Whatever the reason, I have simply found that Site Content image generator great for simple imagery and general pictures but very inefficient for any sort of specific images. You have to remember that we are doing niche websites here.

So let's say your niche is on ....?.....(hard to think on the spot...even though I am not on any sort of spot)... your niche is of different types of ice cream cones. I am sure you could get lot's of images and photos of people eating ice cream in ice cream cones but, to find images of the different styles of ice cream cones, the stubby, the proud, the waffle, the blockhead, the diabetic, the waffle bowl, the twig, the cookie all images you know you can't get and I understand that because there are zillions of images in our world but one would be right to think, something so common as a dog collar or a Pilot ball-point pen and get planes, old men. more planes, a few computer desks with computers and A pen on the desk and a pencil.

Please understand, this is not a rant but rather a suggestion to maybe the Artist or the image engine developers or Google or maybe website designer, I just hate the fact you have to email the manufacturer and they just give you the photos anyways. I have only had 3 companies not reply out of the 30-40 emails I sent out but no one ever said no and rightly so. If your not using it in direct competition whereas most of us use it for reviews, sharing market research, top 10 etc..., instructional video or article or simply a product spotlight, whatever the reason it's free advertising for them and it's free market research and PR engagement that would otherwise cost big corps tens of thousands of dollars. Just have that one stipulation that you can not use it in direct competition with them.

Other than that one flaw, it's great having that tool right there and for it to have so many useful options is awesome. I also like the feature I can pull right from my own library or off another device. It's definitely a tool I will keep using for the years to come. Thanks WA for keeping us ahead of the crowd at a moments notice, that's brilliant work you guys are executing there, keep it up. Be sure to keep to keep a lookout for a training video soon enough...I'm too much of a noob, I'm not allowed to make training's yet lol!

So, remember the cool thing about SiteContent I was talking WAY back at the beginning of all this? Well, I almost forgot too, that is until I went to proofread it before posting. In the very first sentence, I was like, (internal monologue) "Just went into SiteContent to finish up and publish an article I have been working on and I had a little surprise which was really quite cool, so cool I had to write this ...SugarHoneyIceTea....I DID IT!!!

Sooo, here's the cool thing. I have started to use the "buckets" system they have in SiteContent as I have built up a ton of content inside of ... SiteContent (I really didn't plan that) and the Bucket system really does help with the organization of it all but even once in the bucket, identifying a particular piece is still hard even with the new colored headers on the files but here's the cool part. If you have an image in that particular piece, it now becomes the background header for that piece making identification even easier without having to read all the titles. A quick glance at the image header and you know exactly which piece it is, THIS IS BETTER THEN THE INVENTION OF ICE CREAM CONES!!! Be sure to check out this cool feature. This feels like I am Jewish converting but I still get the 12 days of Christmas here at the WA, Chag Molad Sameach. Keep these great gifts coming WA, I can take it, We all can take it! Enjoy fellow Affiliates, enjoy!