Now, to give you all a little background on me: I’m an American from Albuquerque, NM and am in charge of Country Management and translations for the English site. I work on the site’s texts personally and am also responsible for sevenload Specials for the English site. I am super excited to finally be releasing this Blog (it’s been a long time in the making) and am really looking forward to getting even more involved in the sevenload Community. I’m hoping to give you all continued help, tips and advice all about sevenload, and also write about some new, fun and interesting topics!

As far as Specials are concerned on the site- we’re really starting to expand internationally and are of course, looking for new Specials and Special ideas. If anyone is interested in a Special on sevenload, please contact us here.

Looking forward to seeing how this Blog develops!

Jessica Ludewig
Country Management USA & UK

PS: I will be joined soon by another English native speaker, Paula, sometime in the very near future! So check back!

Your photos and videos can only be found on sevenload when they are linked with tags. Tags may be added to photos/videos even while they are uploading. In addition to serving a search function, tags also help describe the photo/video in a way that doesn’t always show up in the title. But it’s actually such tagged “moments” in a video for example, that make it catch a user’s attention. *Something important to note here: this is why it is so important to properly and relevantly make tags for the actual contents. Irrelevant or biased keywords such as “sexy”, “women” or “funny” are not reletive to a photo of a white beach and though it might make the user happy to have some many views of their pics it is actually tag misuse and is misleading to the other users searching for particular contents.

Whoever misuses tags (and let alone doesn’t tag at all) makes their photos and videos difficult to find for their friends and other users. Your content viewers could quickly lose interest in viewing your photos/videos when they discover that the actual contents of your works are not as they were described. A beautiful landscape photo can be something truly moving, but when such as photo is tagged with “funny“, well it just doesn’t fit. In fact, in some cases, our Support Team will delete such misused tags for you- and sometimes, in more extreme circumstances, they might write you a warning about misusing tags.

However, correctly tagging is the best way to share your photos/videos with other users and for the whole world to be able to find them. Because of this, sevenload has made it possible for any user to add tags to a photo/video- however, the photo/video’s user has the ability to delete any other users tags at any time. sevenload’s large Community is all about togetherness and we are always happy to see new results pop up in search results- sometimes tagged by the user themselves and sometimes by their fellow user.

P.S.: You can find further information about tags on Wikipedia (here too).

In addition, we’re planning on adding a feature that will let you add a CC License at the onset of uploading photos and videos. This hopefully will make it easier for you to share/protect your works on sevenload!

If you haven’t heard about Creative Commons yet, this will be your chance to find out more about it!

Of course, we want to mention from the outset here that these are not real info cards in the sense that they do not contain personal information- however, this is how your sevenload friends can more easily see your public information such as: your user name, location, registration date with sevenload, the number of photos you have and additionally, your actual profile photo.

Apropos sevenloaders – per request we are giving you a new URL: the shorter sevenloader.com address. With this URL you can share your “online and offline world” with all your friends who are not yet on sevenload and quickly explain your profile to them. This simple principle functions in the following combination: “username.sevenloader.com” – for example, in my case it would be Sichelputzer.sevenloader.com, which then forwards directly to my profile on sevenload.de. From now on, it’s your choice how you reach someone’s profile, either through this direct link or by reaching it the old way.