How to Make Your Cassette Photos Stand Out in a Crowd

For a small blog covering a very niche subject, Tape Tardis has done well for search referral traffic. Although it does now tend to focus on text-first content, Tape Tardis began life as a photo blog, and the presence of some of its most impactive illustrations on Google Images has been one of the key factors in netting labour-free, guaranteed, daily traffic.

I’ve always believed that if you can get a new, original photo fairly high up in the Google Images results, and that photo stands out, the great public of the world will spot it and engage with it. And that should encourage Google to keep the photo visible for you – perhaps even drive it up to a higher position. Impactive images will also likely get you shares on photo-driven sites such as Pinterest, which expand your reach with further links to your main content.

In this post, I’m going to document a few of the ideas I’ve used to make my cassette photos a little different, and thus instantly visible in a crowd…