Dec 1, 2009 - With another year coming to an end, Thumbshots.com launches a special offer for its Thumbshots Images that would save new signups $25 from its setup fees by December 31.

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 We are having a Special Offer saving your $25 when you sign up a Thumbshots Premium account for as low as $4.99.

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Why do we need to optimize Thumbnails on search engine result pages? Well the answer is quite obvious – When we search something, we want to get the best DEAL…in any form! So, as SEO’s optimizes a site to get better search rankings, thumbnails too, if properly optimized, will add more potentiality to the website’s sales leads.

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Heard of Shooter? Well, it’s not a guntype (lol)! Shooter is a cool Firefox plugin for taking quick screenshot of webpages viewed in Firefox browser (compatible with version 3.5). 

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Mydir.gr is a general Greek SEO Friendly Directory, which accepts free and paid links submissions from Greece and Cyprus and is Human Edited.

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Google has recently launched a new version of its popular toolbar. The nice thing about this is the implementation of the new tab feature with thumbnails.

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The use of thumbnails or what we call here Thumbshots is everywhere. Not just on the internet but on your local desktops and laptops.

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It looks like more and more sites are relying on web previews or Thumbshots on their site to help enhance site usability. Search-cube.com and Managedq.com are just a few who rely on previews to enhance their user experiences.

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Previews thumbnails or Thumbshots (that's what we call it here) is not used only the web but also on our desktops. BumpTop is an excellent example of what this software can do on your PC. With BumpTop, Your desktop doesn't have to be a boring graveyard for lost and forgotten files anymore.

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Pagerank.Cepoko.com is a simple pagerank checker that shows you Google pagerank, Alexa rank, a screenshot (a web preview thumbnail or what we call a Thumbshots ) of the website or a tag cloud of the most searched websites. The tool also yields additional page information links like DMOZ and Yahoo directory inclusion, domain age and other relevant stuff.

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Thumbshots.com have come another step forward by reducing price plans starting from as low as $4.99/month for their popular screenshots to reach more small and low budget websites, blogs and search engines owners.

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The Thumbshots Ranking Tool improved with new features that will help on the usability of this SEO tool. Updated features of Thumbshots Ranking: (http://Ranking.Thumbshots.com)

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Learn about the many specifications on Thumbshots.

Incorporating Thumbshots into your search engine is easy. Every aspect of Thumbshots is carried out on the server. Users do not need any special software to view Thumbshots.

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A research paper from the University of Aix Marseille III in France describes the different factors that can improve the click-through rate of online advertising. The paper describes the positive contribution of targeted ads, increased picture size and the use of attractive image ads in a page.

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An independent study performed by the University of Calgary (1999) demonstrated the effectiveness of thumbnail screenshots as a web navigational aid.

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A recent study in 2001 conducted by Microsoft Research explored the contribution of thumbnail images on information retrieval of previously stored web pages using various visual cues.

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Thumbshots improve user satisfaction by locating the information users want easily and removing the frustrations associated with searching. Studies confirm, thumbshots help reduce failed searches and increase user satisfaction.

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Every thumbshot is a premium advertising space because the user's attention is directed at the search results and colorful screenshots. Your advertisers can benefit from strong branding opportunities and high conversion. Thumbshot offers a powerful and effective advertising space because users naturally glance at the screenshots when filtering through the results. Studies have shown, users prefer visual over textual cues because humans interpret images faster with less effort than reading text.

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Search engines are constantly improving their bottom line by improving their search results without compromising their business model and degrading their user satisfaction. From a return on investment perspective, thumbshots enables your organization to increase revenues

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Vision provides significant source of information and plays major roles in information-seeking tasks. Our brain is trained to filter, distinguish, select and associate images with information with greater efficiency and accuracy than any other forms of input. Thumbshots emphasize visual cues for content retrieval. Our preview technology embeds a tiny screenshot alongside the search results or directory listings will improve the information retrieval process.

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Studies show humans remember better using visual cues than textual cues. For example, you are more likely to remember a person's face but not the name. Thumbshots help users recall previously visited sites easier because users recognize the site by their distinctive layout, colors and pictures.

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Thumbshots can visualize foreign sites where text descriptions may not be available due to language barriers. Thumbshots supplement search engines and directories by providing friendly visual feedback

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Thumbshots can locate ambiguous or abstract searches easily because the content is immediately visible from the preview. Users can easily differentiate between various sites by observing the content of the page.

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sites like adult web pages can appear in the results page even in seemingly harmless search query because of cloaking techniques employed by webmasters to improve their site popularity. Because pictures never lie,

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Every site has a distinctive look and feel. For example, you can easily distinguish a commercial site from an amateur site based on the design of the page. Similarly, an online florist will display pictures of flowers and a car reviewer will have pictures of automobiles in the page. These powerful visual cues help users to accurately determine the relevancy of a site and its quality of content.

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Secondbrain is a content aggregation platform with lifestreaming and networking functionality, where people can organize all their web content and bookmarks in personal content libraries. It’s a free service, only recently launched in public beta, but gaining in popularity because of its well designed user interface and its special features.

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Blogcatalog.com is a premiere Social blogs directory where you can post, share and find blogs of your choice. It is a community to bring world bloggers, closer! Blogcatalog.com is the ideal place for you if you are intending to promote your blogs, websites, community forums and articles. Blogcatalog.com is a social networking site that helps its members to find articles and blogs of their interest, allows creating unique personal biography to interact with other Blogcatalog.com members. This builds and improves the communication around the Blogcatalog.com site, as a whole.

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Ujiko.com unveils its latest version of its Yahoo-powered search engine with the innovative thumbnail snapshot functionality from Thumbshots.org.

Thumbshots are screenshots of web pages in thumbnail sizes, which perfectly complement UJIKO information visualization strategy. Users can now instantaneously visualize and preview site results. Thumbshots add a new visual dimension to their search strategy.

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