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Rem · 1 year ago

Excellent articles, John. Consider that something like this could also help traffic to sites that have an interest in photos:

http://www.imagesearchscript.com

The simplicity of this is that people are searching for photos on those sites and if they own a site, they're not making any money with their searches.

I enjoyed reading your article! Keep up the good work!

Christina · 1 year ago

Flickr don't allow you to use their services for commercial purposes, and I would imagine that doing this would be classed as commercial use -- I'd be very wary of doing this myself!

Incase your wondering, take a look here http://flickr.com/guidelines.gne

Unless I'm missing something, I don't think this would work!

Lars · 1 year ago

FYI, Flickr gets up in arms if you make your Flickr photos too promotional in nature, and if you link back to your site on too high of a percentage of your total photos.

I was using Flickr to host photos of customers using my products, as well as some product photos, with links back to those product pages on my site.

Flickr got mad and emailed me and made me remove all of the links I had in the descriptions that went back to the product pages.

I didn't think it was over the top promotional at all, but they did.

I still think Flickr is great, and we put a lot of high resolution product shots up there so that members of the media can download them directly from Flickr and we don't have to email them huge files.

But I don't consider it a search optimization thing based on my experience, and I think they really discourage that kind of use.

I think all of your tips for using Flickr are dead on, except for the keyword anchor text link back thing, which they might zap you for if you do it with more than just a small, small percentage of your photos.

Carl · 1 year ago

More, links hosted by Flickr are marked with the attribute rel="nofollow" instructing spiders not to index the destination website. While you may gain in visitor visibility, don't expect your pagerank to benefit from it.

Mr Internet Marketing · 1 year ago

I truly believe that the only concerns one should have with images is the loading time for those visitors that are still using dial up.

Cintia · 1 year ago

@Lars
i also use flickr for backlink at each image but never got a complain.

JudyAnn Lorenz · 1 year ago

On one of my websites, I'm using a subdirectory to collect articles, but it could be used to hold photos. Google sees a subdirectory as another website, but your visitor sees it as a branch of your website.

http://beautyreview.newbeautysuccess.com

nowaywalker · 1 year ago

images are also significant for black optimization (so called doors). Search engines do not welcome them, or fighting them, so its your prime task to make the door unique. So, the images must be unique and there is a soft that cuts the same pucture into quite different pieces on the same template

Shane: content writer · 1 year ago

Its unfortunate though that one can use the ALT tag rather dubiously, using irrelevant keywords merely to get undeserved positive attention

Hayden · 1 year ago

John
A nicely written article, thanks for putting this together and explaining how Flickr could be used for SEO.
Only yesterday I wrote a similar article on how companies can maximine their assets; however this is not just images but also video and other media assets:
http://press20.blogspot.com/2008/04/portable-co...

regards and keep up the good work
Hayden
http://press20.blogspot.com

Will · 1 year ago

Excellent article John. I also wrote a guide a while back about how to use Flickr for SEO that expands on some ideas here. If anyone wants to check it our here it is:

http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/flickr-is-not-use...

Keep the good posts coming, John.

juliemarg · 1 year ago

Hi John

I linked to this post in my article on Flickr Marketin. I'd love it if you'd send all your readers over to check it out!

http://tinyurl.com/4bjf7x

Ben Pate · 11 months ago

Hi John, thanks for this article. I see that it was written almost a year ago and so maybe not so relevant anymore. I went to your flickr account to see examples, but I notice that none of your photos have a link in the description and neither does your profile page.

Did you remove these after the game changed?

An update would be appreciated ;)

action_movie_series · 4 months ago

Very nice. What if we put keywords in the alt tag of the image.