Albums Ranking

To ensure well-made and good quality albums be seen by our valued visitors we have implemented a sophisticated album ranking system which decide which albums will appear first in “Albums” section. This system is still beta and in the future we plan to apply it on all photos and profile pages as well so if your photos get good ranking you can get the benefit of being seen by many visitors and getting more traffic so we urge you all to pay attention on how to improve your ranking in our system. Here are some guidelines for improving your rank.

  1. Choose a meaningful category and sub-category for all of your albums.
  2. Keep all of your albums up to date and avoid any broken images or empty albums.
  3. Write meaningful title,description and keywords for all of your albums.
  4. Make sure all of your photos have meaningful names and titles.
  5. Avoid using hot-linking for large images extensively instead link to the portal page of each image.

If you’ve done all of that we assure you’ll get a good rank and high quality traffic to your profile, albums and if you’re paid member you can put your website link there and convert this traffic into effective sales to your products, services or images.

Image Replacement Feature

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve added a new feature.

Now, If you need to change the image you uploaded but keep the same link and name, you don’t need to bother deleting old image then re-uploading. We’ve made it much easier for you.

Step One For Replacing An Image

Step One For Replacing An Image

Second Step For Replacing An Image

Second Step For Replacing An Image

Added Two Tiered Categorization To Albums

We’d like to inform you proudly that a new feature has been added to ePhotoBay.

Now you can select from an extensive list of categories and sub categories for your album. The two tier categorization would make your album more unique and would make it more meaningful and rank better at search engines.

Also in the future, we plan to add filtration feature in search page which means your visitors will be able to reach your album easily by filtration to the required category and sub category.

So we encourage you all to modify your albums and specify a category and sub-category for each of them.

Added Security Measures

It came to our attention that the number of people abusing our service (aka. spam or illegal activities) are increasing over time. So to protect innocent users from such an abuse and keep our service clean and continue our service with the same quality we had to work on several security measures. Which can be summarized as following. ps. security measures are applied only to non members. if you sign up you will not have to care about that.

1- Captcha system (Human check system): this is to ensure that humans only are uploading images to our system. robots and automatic uploaders mustn’t used in any way.

2- Spammers global block list: we have compiled a global block list to block known spammers from using our service.

3- Manual check: we have built a back-end to manually check all images uploaded to our system. Usually non members have tighter and more checks than members using our service for long time.

4- People abusing our service will have their IPs and/or accounts get blocked. You’ll need to contact us to have them recovered.

Generally we highly recommend all our users to join to have richer service and more convenience using our service.

Slideshow of images is available

Dear Users,

We’re pleased to announce that we made a slide show of images feature for you. This is in response to the request of our valued users of having this featured created.

The use of this feature is easy. A usage guide is added in FAQ page

For the time being fade effect is the only available now for slide shows. But we’ll add more effects soon.

Keep in touch to know about the new effects once created.

Uploaded Images Will Require Approval

Dear Users,

We would like to announce that because some few people are abusing or service by uploading images not suitable for audience, starting from now we will not show up any images on our system till it is approved by our administrators. however image uploader will be able to use it and link to it instantly once uploaded.

It’ll not just show up on our directory till it is reviewed which will be in 24 hours usually.

This is to ensure our service and our website are completely safe for all audience including children.

Best Regards.

New Design

Dear Users,

We are happy to announce the release of new design for ePhoto Bay.

We had implemented the new design for the seek of easiness of use and becoming more convenient to our valued users.

If you have any comments or suggestions concerning the new design or any other features, Feel free to let us know.

The new design is the start of a series of many upgrades and new features currently under development.

Keep checking our blog or add our RSS feed to your feed reader to know when the new feature are ready.

Thanks for all of you for being a users of ePhoto Bay.

We’ll make sure to give you best user experience.

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Welcome to ePhoto Bay!

Welcome to ePhoto Bay. We would like to announce launch of our blog today.

This is for the seek for better support for our valued user.

Here we will publish announcements, service changes, new features etc…

To know how to use our service please check our FAQ. If you can’t find answer to your question please feel free to contact us.