Top Free Photos Websites and Creative Commons Attribution

Top Free Photos Websites and Creative Commons Attribution

Looking for pictures that you are allowed to use, copy and share openly is sometimes not as easy as just downloading a file from a search engine. The search engine might not inform you about the copyright of the image. The internet is also covered by copyright law. To be able to adhere to the copyright laws and liscenses rules and to be able to publish pictures without needing an attorney, you may want to look up certain portals that inform you about the rights of the image. 

Some websites have gathered people from all around the world, who give away pictures for free use. These pictures are available for free downloading and other uses, such as distribution. Remember to always look for the liscense statement, the attribution, a creative commons statement or to set the filter on these websites to see only the liscensed pictures that you are looking for. For example, on Flickr search you can choose the liscense you are looking for. 

Here are the most popular websites that share pictures with the creative commons attribution:

https://www.pexels.com/

https://pixabay.com

https://www.flickr.com

http://all-free-download.com/

http://www.morguefile.com/

Each one of these websites has thousands of pictures to choose from. You are not required to be a photographer or designer yourself to make a beautiful website. You can use these portals. There are several more portals out there that are free and some prefer to ask for a credit card payment for a photo stock. The ones I have posted here host free images for any kind of theme. They also inform you about pictures that can be used commercially. 

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Best 10 US Graduate Schools For Clinical Psychology

Best 10 U.S. Graduate Schools For Clinical Psychology

Clinical Psychologists apply their knowledge and skills to reduce symptoms of distress and to improve the wellbeing of their patients. Their generalized job description is summarized as using psychological methods and updated research to employ positive changes to the patients lives. These positive changes are achieved by using various treatment methods. Clinical Psychologists use psychometric tests, interviews and other diagnostic tools to asses the patients needs. 

Best 10 US Graduate Schools For Clinical Psychology

The areas of employment include mental health hospitals, multidisciplinary team work and writing legal reports as expert witnesses for the court of law. The requirement to become a Clinical Psychologist is to obtain a degree from a graduate school. 

According to the U.S.N world reports, the top 10 US Graduate Schools For Clinical Psychology in the United States of America rank as follows:

1. University of California (UCLA) - Los Angeles. Website for prospective students

https://www.psych.ucla.edu/

2. University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

http://www.med.unc.edu/

3. University of Washington

http://depts.washington.edu/

4. University of Wisconsin (Madison)

http://www.aud.wisc.edu

5. Yale University

http://www.yale.edu/

6. Duke University

http://gradschool.duke.edu/

7. University of Illinois 

http://shs.illinois.edu/

8. University of Kansas

http://splh.ku.edu/

9. University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)

http://slhs.umn.edu/

10. University of Pennsylvania

http://www.psych.upenn.edu/

Best 10 US Graduate Schools For Clinical Psychology

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What is a Webcrawler?

What is a Webcrawler?

A webcrawler is a software that searches the internet and scans websites for their contents. Webcrawlers are often also referred to as spiders or robots. Search engines use such crawlers to analyse websites for information. The assembled information is then stored and processed, via a process named indexing, to facilitate subsequent retrieval of that data. 

As a website owner you want such crawlers to scan your page and to process the information you have listed on your website. Once they have done so, readers can gain easier access to the data on your website. Readers are now able to find your website and its content via a search engine. The crawler works like a spider through its web, starting from one link and proceeding to the next and the next - in a network kind of a way. The threads of that network are then available to keywords that internet users type into their seach engine. 

The more links you create on your website, the more indexed your website will be. You create such a link by for example publishing a post on blogger. By linking one of your publications to another, you facilitare the scanning process even more. The best way to make the search engine aware of your website and your posts is to submit a sitemap. 

How to submit a sitemap

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Increase Your Blogs Visibility by Indexing it to Search Engines

Increase Your Blogs Visibility by Indexing it to Search Engines

For search engines, such as Google, to be able to find your blog, you will have to do some work first. The goal is to tell Google to send its crawlers to your website. Crawlers are basically Google spiders that scan your blog and memorize the text and images that you posted. The information from your blog is then picked up by Google and every time someone searches a keyword matching your blog, your blog will be a suggested link to visit. In short, your blog must be crawled first, so that it can appear in Google search to draw potential visitors to your site.

For this process to go smootly, you will need to assist the search engines. To do this, go to your webmasters tools. If you have never done this before, simply follow the instructions written here. You do not need to have extensive knowledge to be able to index your page. The goal is to create a map of your blog, to send that map to the search engine and to have your blog contents be submitted to the search engines. This will give you greater visibility on the web and make it much easier for the search engine to suggest your page to the readers.

Step 1: Go to your webmaster tools  https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home

Step 2: If you have already set up your blog as a property, select the one you would like to index and click on your link. If you have not done so yet, add your link as a property. You will need to confirm your property first, before being able to index your site.

Step 3: One you have clicked on the link of your property, you will see the dashboard coming up. Select "Crawling" from the menu and then "Sitemaps".

Step 4: To submit the contents / to index your blog you will need to submit a sitemap from your Blogger. A sitemap is a .xml file. For blogger this is easy to do. Just click on add sitemap and type in sitemap.xml

Step 5: If you would also like to submit your Atom or RSS feed for blogger, type in atom.xml  and  rss.xml

Step 6: In the same window you will see that your indexing process is in progress. It will take about a a day for the search engine to have finished the indexing. Most of your posts will then show up as indexed on the next day. And that is it! You have successfully created a map for the search engine to come and scan your page. If you like, notice the warnings you may get and work on those.

Note: If you are not using blogger, you may need an external tool to create a sitemap for you. This sitemap would then have to be uploaded to your content server. After having uploaded it you can submit the link of that uploaded sitemap to the same crawling tool explained here. For Wordpress continue reading here:

http://www.inboundnow.com/how

This is a neccessary process to list your website to the search engine. Without doing so, you compromise your visibility on the web and you therefore make it less possible for new readers to find you. As a Blogger or Website owner you will need to make sure that a large amount of traffic comes to your page. Only more brings more. For this to be possible, you will need to index your site.

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