101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P37:Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos. | 166 Promoting Yourself SELLING IMAGES ON YOUR WEBSITE OR BLOG RIGHT AWAY WITH PAYPAL PayPal is a site you can register on that allows your customers to pay for their goods with a credit the buyer wants an item on your website he can go to the PayPal site and pay with his credit card. It s quick and easy to sell images on your blog using can make a button for the image that states its name and price and that will link to PayPal so the customer can use his credit card to buy it. You can also make multiple-choice buttons that allow you to sell the same image at different sizes or in black and white versus color To make the button go to PayPal click on the Merchant Services tab at the top of the click Buy Now Button. Fill out the form and then click on Create ll be given some HTML code to put in your blog post in the HTML section . Put it under the image and your image will be for sale. After that they can click the button and pay and you can deliver say a high-res image by e-mail. Knowing What You Want on Your Website One of the biggest challenges of making a website is deciding what content you will have. To decide that it s always a good idea to take a look at what others have done. You want to know what links are on the homepage what they sell including services if anything and what other extras they have. Table presents a wide range of photographer websites and the content they contain. Notice that there is a trend toward websites that contain blog posts see Figure . It makes sense because when you write a blog post for your webpage you have fresh content that will keep people coming back. You ll find that all the sites have great photo galleries and that some don t sell anything. Most of the time if they re not selling anything they ll have ads to make money. NOTE You can make money on your website or blog by putting ads on it. Google https adsense has an AdSense program where you can put ads on .