Photobird Daily

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One of the things that I know is important to you is that you want to show off your favorite photos with the world here on Photobird.com; but on the other hand, you also have some photos that you’d like to keep private, such as family photos.

Fortunately, it’s really easy to do both on Photobird.com.

One of the best things about your Photobird photo albums is that they remain private until you tell people about them. When you sign up for a Photobird subscription, you are the only person who knows about it. We don’t tell anyone, and no one can find your photo album. But the whole reason why your photos are on Photobird.com is to share them with someone.

Here’s how people will find your photos on Photobird.com:

• Tell your friends and family. When you tell your friends and family about your photo album, they will know where it is and how to find it.
• Post a link to an album or a photo on websites, blogs, and forums. If you, your friends, or your family post a link to your photo album or one of your photos on another website, blog, forum, or somewhere else online, other people who you may not know will be able to visit your photo album.
• Submit photos for the Photobird Photo of the Hour. If you decide to submit some of your photos for the Photobird Photo of the Hour and your photos are selected by us, then when just one of your photos is shown on the Photobird Look at Pictures page, all of your photos displayed in your Photobird photo album will be available to anyone who visits Photobird.com. More information about submitting your photos for the Photo of the Hour is here.
• Search on Google and other search engines. If your photos are shown on the Look at Pictures page, Google and the other search engines will find them too. Then, when someone searches on your name or a word in one of your photos’ titles or descriptions, it’s quite possible that they will find your photo album on Photobird.

Some people definitely appreciate the exposure provided by the Photo of the Hour and People, Places and Things. They want as many people as possible to see their photos.

If you want to keep your photo albums private, that’s the easiest thing to do because you don’t need to do anything special to keep your photo albums private on Photobird.com.

If you want a combination of the two — show off your favorite photos, but keep some other photos private — here’s how easy it is to do both without sacrificing the privacy of your private photos:

1. Make an album called “family”, “private”, or anything you want. Just be aware that even if an album is hidden, people can still guess the name and see the album, so be creative.
2. Make the album hidden. Click the Edit Album Options button and check the “Do not display…” checkbox.
3. Put all of your private photos in this hidden album. You can even create more albums within this album and they will all be hidden.
4. If you want extra protection on this private album, you can require that people enter a password to see the album; you can set this up easily in Edit Album Options.
5. Then, create all of your public albums, the ones you want the world to see, at the main, top level of your album, just like you already have.

Here’s one example. You may have already seen my photo album located at http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/ . But what you don’t see there is an album called Florida. It’s there. It’s just hidden; it’s not displayed in my album. Your hidden albums will be similar. No one will know about it unless you tell them (or they guess correctly; if you think they may be able to guess it, then put a password on it or choose a name they can’t guess). You can see my Florida album at http://www.photobird.com/ekrimen/florida. It even has an easy to remember direct link, just like your other albums that aren’t hidden.

The beauty of having your photos on Photobird is that you can easily set up which photo albums are public, which are hidden without passwords, which are hidden with passwords, and to make things even easier, you can put all of your hidden albums without passwords inside one album, and your hidden albums with passwords inside another album. Or multiple albums of each. There’s no limit. If you decide you want to add or remove a password within one of those hidden albums, that’s easy too: Just click on the album you want to change and click the Edit Album Options button to add or remove the password, regardless of where the album is located.

We’ve made this easy for you because we know it’s important to you. We like things to be really easy too!

Please let us know in the comments, in the forums, or contact us directly if you have any questions about this functionality or anything on Photobird.com. We’re happy to help!