Use Watermarking technique to promote your Blog or Site
We often upload our images to Photo sharing sites and also distribute them across different sites on the web. Most of the sites like Flickr, Picasa, Snap Fish show your images on an image search in Google or Live. Of course, you can make them private so that they are not shown t public.
We also upload images to our blogs/sites. These images may be unique and you do not want someone else to be the owner of your images. Anyone can easily use them for various purposes without your knowledge. So, how do you protect them? Thanks to Watermarking technique.
Your images are visible across the web and when they are visible, they can be downloaded by anyone. Using Watermarking will prevent others from downloading them. Though it can’t stop your images from being visible. The image here, has my blogs URL embossed in the middle.
Why should you use Watermarking?
- Prevents others from downloading your images.
- You can use Watermarking to emboss your site’s URL and market your site. With the intention of viewing more images from your site, you can expect more visits.
- You can use this as a marketing tool to promote your site.
- There are several ways to promote your blog. This is one of the easiest way!
There are many tools available in the market which watermarks your photographs and even videos. But, most of them are paid or you get a Free Trial. Here are two tools that can be used free of cost.
PicMarkr
This wonderful online utility lets you watermark your images free of cost without the hassle of installing the software. One can use any of the following methods to Watermark.
- Text Watermark – Lets you write a text on the image
- Image Watermark – Lets you emboss a small image (usually your site logo) on the photographs
- Tiled Watermark – Either text or images will be tiled to the photographs.
All your images will be Watermarked with the options you have chosen and they can be downloaded.
Picture-Shark
It’s a freeware software that can be installed on your computer for Personal Use. Certified by Softpedia from No Spyware, No Adware, No Viruses. This tool provides most of the functionality that other paid software provide.
Download it here.
The above mentioned utilities can only be used to Watermark photographs and not Videos.
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Comments
Using water-marking to promote your blog is a brilliant idea. I have hundreds of photos laying on Picasa, Flickr and whatever. I think I must start water-marking. Most of my photos are not related to my blog but I could still do this because that old saying will always be true – if one sees something enough times you will remember it.
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Arun mama, Thanks for this wonderful info. I was looking at bloggers using that technique for their images. But, didn’t know.
Thanks again. I will start using the tool to add watermark.
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@Lax, one has so many options now-a-days to achieve what they want. It’s only the matter of time.
@Lyndi, that’s the whole idea behind it 
@Nihar, I thought you are already aware of this. Good that you have come to know about it from here! 
Picmarkr is good tool to do this really.But smart people will use same tools to remove that
Anyway good way to promote the sites.
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