Voice Over in the Google Era

The search giant has brought more to our fingertips than any other web portal on the Internet, corralling relevant websites and taming the Wild West of the World Wide Web.

There Has Never Been a Better Time
Free career resources and advice is available, job opportunities are bountiful, and the costs associated with getting started and building a home recording studio are at the lowest they have ever been thanks to online marketplaces and the global village.

Broadcasters from the old school of presenting are using their highly developed instincts and production skills to land jobs from other radio and television stations around the world.

Singers and stage actors from the theatre are exercising their vocal versatility, performing as voice actors in animation, film, and documentary narration as well as producing music beds and jingles for commercials.

Salespeople, former telephone marketers, and educators with great voices are flexing their persuasive musculature in commercials, telephony, and educational voice overs with the gusto and ambition of jockeys at the gate, waiting to unleash their voices on the world.

These are just some of the people who make up the voice industry. This guide will help you succeed in the Google Era, one Google service at a time.

Google Web Search
What is it? Google Search is the largest search engine on the Internet. Google has indexed billions of web pages and organized the results in a pecking order of which sources are deemed most relevant or popular by other people who link to websites.

What does it do for me? Google Search can act as a gateway for thousands of visitors to find your website and learn more about your services. Ranking high in the search engine, particularly for your name, is very important.

How can I use it to the fullest? Optimize for keywords and be sure to update your website often. Build links to your website and add valuable content that the search engines will index to generate more pages in their engine related to your website.

URL: http://www.google.com

Google Image Search
What is it? Google Image Search provides people looking for images with literally billions of images indexed by their search engine, available for viewing. To use Image Search, select the “images” tab or visit http://images.google.com. You can enter a query in the image search box, then click on the “Search” button. If you’d like to see a larger image, click the thumbnail on the results page to see a larger version of the image, as well as the web page on which the image is located.

What does it do for me? Google analyzes the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image caption and dozens of other factors to determine the image content. Google also uses sophisticated algorithms to remove duplicates and ensure that the highest quality images are presented first in
your results. If you properly tag your images, you will rank higher for specific keywords.
How can I use it to the fullest? Name your images appropriately and be sure to use descriptive keywords that indicate what your image is of.

URL: http://images.google.com