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My niche is related to a period in history. It's one where I was around, so I do have artefacts and family pictures from the era.
However, I have now arrived at the time
Thank you all for your input - @TheAbiePPlus, @davebux and @FrankB-1. I think that I have a number of options. I could buy artefacts and photograph those. I could use Wikimedia Commons. AI is a bit hit and miss and as Abie says, copyright on those is a tricky issue. Some of the images of tennis players with similar descriptions to Borg and McEnroe that I've just had served up... ;-) ... were odd to say the least.
Or, I could invest in a subscription to Shutterstock or similar. It looks like they offer a small number of downloads for a little less than 20GBP which is around the same in USD or Euros.
Simon
Shutterstock should be good :) You may check out AppSumo, as they may have offers on certain apps - I had three to four awesome deals in the past from that site :)
And keep us updated on your progress.
Abie
Frank beat me to it. Asking AI to generate an image like xxx is only the same as you drawing or painting that image yourself. Its your drawing. Well not quite the same, depending how good your drawing skills are.
Someone can patent an electric kettle, but there is nothing to stop you creating your own kettle that still looks like a kettle. It happens all the time.
Bux
Hi Simon
In addition to Abie’s suggestions, AI-generated images may also be a possibility, depending on the degree of authenticity and proper detail you require.
I use lots of AI-generated images in my guitar niche and have created Custom GPTs that provide fairly high detail, for things such as wood finishes, control knob configuration, etc.
AI-generated images are free to use. Try asking AI to look at a portrait and create an accurate image from it in a particular setting. You can indicate something like “AI-generated similarity for educational purposes” if it is to be used in an academic publication.
Frank 🎸
We are just getting ready to have our Sunday brunch, Abie. I hope yours was special! 😎
Frank 🤘🎸
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Can anyone advise on the use of copyrighted images?
My niche is related to a period in history. It's one where I was around, so I do have artefacts and family pictures from the era.
However, I have now arrived at the time
Hey Simon,
In this case, here's what I would do... see screen print below...
In this way, you are NOT stealing the image as it remains on the website you inserted the image URL from.
However, make sure you have the Broken Links plugin so that if the website you insert the image from decides to prevent your usage, so that you can look for another site to insert from URL.
That is what that option is for... and I've even done that with many of my Wiki images whenever possible.
Hope you find this helpful.
Thank you all for your input - @TheAbiePPlus, @davebux and @FrankB-1. I think that I have a number of options. I could buy artefacts and photograph those. I could use Wikimedia Commons. AI is a bit hit and miss and as Abie says, copyright on those is a tricky issue. Some of the images of tennis players with similar descriptions to Borg and McEnroe that I've just had served up... ;-) ... were odd to say the least.
Or, I could invest in a subscription to Shutterstock or similar. It looks like they offer a small number of downloads for a little less than 20GBP which is around the same in USD or Euros.
Simon
Shutterstock should be good :) You may check out AppSumo, as they may have offers on certain apps - I had three to four awesome deals in the past from that site :)
And keep us updated on your progress.
Abie
Frank beat me to it. Asking AI to generate an image like xxx is only the same as you drawing or painting that image yourself. Its your drawing. Well not quite the same, depending how good your drawing skills are.
Someone can patent an electric kettle, but there is nothing to stop you creating your own kettle that still looks like a kettle. It happens all the time.
Bux
Hi Simon
In addition to Abie’s suggestions, AI-generated images may also be a possibility, depending on the degree of authenticity and proper detail you require.
I use lots of AI-generated images in my guitar niche and have created Custom GPTs that provide fairly high detail, for things such as wood finishes, control knob configuration, etc.
AI-generated images are free to use. Try asking AI to look at a portrait and create an accurate image from it in a particular setting. You can indicate something like “AI-generated similarity for educational purposes” if it is to be used in an academic publication.
Frank 🎸
We are just getting ready to have our Sunday brunch, Abie. I hope yours was special! 😎
Frank 🤘🎸
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Hi, I'm just going to set up some landing pages. Question, my blog is about items that are sold by many vendors, so do I have a landing page per vendor or per individual item?
By item, then you can place multiple vendors for that item on the same page and let the reader make the choice of who they buy from.
Hi Simon,
I’d suggest testing each way.
And depends on how easy it would be for someone to find the item that they’re looking for…on on the linked page… if you do per vendor
Per item would be more focused. And it doesn’t matter the number of landing pages you create and have.
For example I’m in the real estate field and I can make a landing page for every house for sale individually if I chose to do so.
Typically you don’t put landing pages on your website menu. Unless they’re for something evergreen.
Thanks, Holly, I write about vinyl records and associated paraphernalia so unless I am writing about a high-end turntable then I think a page per product would mean nothing but landing pages. I may try one per vendor though...
Simon ;-)
Hey Simon,
YIKES, if you were to create a landing page for every affiliate link to products and/or services, your website would be nothing but landing pages.
Following Kyle's training, you'll learn how to add affiliate links (sprinkled!) in your content so that the article draws in your readers... and those links should offer a solution to the problem you're writing about.
Hope that makes sense and that this helps you.
Thanks, Trish. Sensible to go with the idea of following Kyle to the letter - he's not done badly doing it his way ;-)
I will probably try landing pages, however, as a gateway to individual sellers of vinyl records which are the items under discussion on my website.
Simon
The only 'landing pages' I've created in my MMO website are ALL different styles that lead ONLY to WA.
Just a thought...
I've found other products/services appear and disappear so fast that it's easier to find a new product/service to use in place of those that disappear... or simply remove the affiliate link... then to totally replace a landing page per product/service.
The purpose of a landing page is to promote a product that you'll get paid for (such as an affiliate commission) if a visitor clicks on it and makes a purchase.
So that should be your guide. Which vendors do you have an affiliate agreement with?
Promote their products on your landing pages.
Thanks, Phil. I'm writing about records, record labels, and musical genres. I haven't yet, but I intend to start writing about individual sellers - a landing page per seller would be a good strategy I think, but not per product because there are millions.
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Hi, I'm just going to set up some landing pages. Question, my blog is about items that are sold by many vendors, so do I have a landing page per vendor or per individual item?
By item, then you can place multiple vendors for that item on the same page and let the reader make the choice of who they buy from.
Hi Simon,
I’d suggest testing each way.
And depends on how easy it would be for someone to find the item that they’re looking for…on on the linked page… if you do per vendor
Per item would be more focused. And it doesn’t matter the number of landing pages you create and have.
For example I’m in the real estate field and I can make a landing page for every house for sale individually if I chose to do so.
Typically you don’t put landing pages on your website menu. Unless they’re for something evergreen.
Thanks, Holly, I write about vinyl records and associated paraphernalia so unless I am writing about a high-end turntable then I think a page per product would mean nothing but landing pages. I may try one per vendor though...
Simon ;-)
Hey Simon,
YIKES, if you were to create a landing page for every affiliate link to products and/or services, your website would be nothing but landing pages.
Following Kyle's training, you'll learn how to add affiliate links (sprinkled!) in your content so that the article draws in your readers... and those links should offer a solution to the problem you're writing about.
Hope that makes sense and that this helps you.
Thanks, Trish. Sensible to go with the idea of following Kyle to the letter - he's not done badly doing it his way ;-)
I will probably try landing pages, however, as a gateway to individual sellers of vinyl records which are the items under discussion on my website.
Simon
The only 'landing pages' I've created in my MMO website are ALL different styles that lead ONLY to WA.
Just a thought...
I've found other products/services appear and disappear so fast that it's easier to find a new product/service to use in place of those that disappear... or simply remove the affiliate link... then to totally replace a landing page per product/service.
The purpose of a landing page is to promote a product that you'll get paid for (such as an affiliate commission) if a visitor clicks on it and makes a purchase.
So that should be your guide. Which vendors do you have an affiliate agreement with?
Promote their products on your landing pages.
Thanks, Phil. I'm writing about records, record labels, and musical genres. I haven't yet, but I intend to start writing about individual sellers - a landing page per seller would be a good strategy I think, but not per product because there are millions.
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Good morning all!
I have just cut and pasted my latest article into the new editor. It has several tables which are now just columns of text. Is there any way to reconfi
Nice to meet you here, just added your following. Wish the best in affiliate marketing business.
Hi Simon
Going forward you might consider building your tables in the Block Editor using a table block.
Also, tables created by Bard and ChatGPT can be copied and pasted into a paragraph block and get converted to a table block automatically.
Frank 🎸
Thanks Frank. I think I am a victim of crossover - I had always used Word to write, then uploaded through the (old) WA editor. Somebody may have advised this, though I may have dreamt it... dreams/reality do blur for me.
Happy rest of Sunday / have a good Monday to you.
Simon
You are well covered here with some excellent advice, and guidance.
Please let the community here know if you still have any further questions.
-Mike
is there not a table block ...
or if you copy and paste jsut the table into your editor on your site does it not add it just as a table...
it probably got confused between the two types of text - paragraph and table...
make sure your table looks good on mobile by using hte preview as mobile at the top of the editor....
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question. My problem is this:
I have a series of articles using several tables with two columns and two rows. I have uploaded these from Word into the old WA editor and they rendered fine in that and they also looked fine when published in WP.
I did the same thing with the latest article in the sequence, but now, in the new editor, the tables just look like this:
Heading 1
Heading 2
Content column 1
Content column 2
Instead of this:
Heading 1 Heading 2
Content column 1 Content column 2
I have not yet published an article with tables to WP using the new editor, but they looked fine in WP when I was using the old editor - and they are fine on a mobile device too.
Thank you,
Simon ;-)
i would add this to the official bug thread as they may not be aware of it...
search for it at the top under the spyglass
if you have written it in word why are you not publishing it to your site....
why add the extra step of going through contenteditor on wa....
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Good morning all!
I have just cut and pasted my latest article into the new editor. It has several tables which are now just columns of text. Is there any way to reconfi
Nice to meet you here, just added your following. Wish the best in affiliate marketing business.
Hi Simon
Going forward you might consider building your tables in the Block Editor using a table block.
Also, tables created by Bard and ChatGPT can be copied and pasted into a paragraph block and get converted to a table block automatically.
Frank 🎸
Thanks Frank. I think I am a victim of crossover - I had always used Word to write, then uploaded through the (old) WA editor. Somebody may have advised this, though I may have dreamt it... dreams/reality do blur for me.
Happy rest of Sunday / have a good Monday to you.
Simon
You are well covered here with some excellent advice, and guidance.
Please let the community here know if you still have any further questions.
-Mike
is there not a table block ...
or if you copy and paste jsut the table into your editor on your site does it not add it just as a table...
it probably got confused between the two types of text - paragraph and table...
make sure your table looks good on mobile by using hte preview as mobile at the top of the editor....
Thank you for taking the time to respond to my question. My problem is this:
I have a series of articles using several tables with two columns and two rows. I have uploaded these from Word into the old WA editor and they rendered fine in that and they also looked fine when published in WP.
I did the same thing with the latest article in the sequence, but now, in the new editor, the tables just look like this:
Heading 1
Heading 2
Content column 1
Content column 2
Instead of this:
Heading 1 Heading 2
Content column 1 Content column 2
I have not yet published an article with tables to WP using the new editor, but they looked fine in WP when I was using the old editor - and they are fine on a mobile device too.
Thank you,
Simon ;-)
i would add this to the official bug thread as they may not be aware of it...
search for it at the top under the spyglass
if you have written it in word why are you not publishing it to your site....
why add the extra step of going through contenteditor on wa....
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Hey Simon,
In this case, here's what I would do... see screen print below...
In this way, you are NOT stealing the image as it remains on the website you inserted the image URL from.
However, make sure you have the Broken Links plugin so that if the website you insert the image from decides to prevent your usage, so that you can look for another site to insert from URL.
That is what that option is for... and I've even done that with many of my Wiki images whenever possible.
Hope you find this helpful.
That's awesome, Trish! Thank you.
Abie