All posts tagged flickr

Last week I wrote 10 tips to optimise your LinkedIn profile, this week I’ve decided to follow on from that with 10 tips to getting started with Flickr. This is meant as a guide to show how you can use Flickr’s photo sharing to generate traffic, optimise for the search engines, build your reputation and gain SEO value.

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The popularity of photo sharing is huge, with 3 billion Flickr photos online (last November) and over 2,800 uploads during the last minute (this stat is continually updated on Flickr.com). So the potential traffic is very high if you have a popular profile - here are my top Flickr tips:

Flickr has become increasingly popular as a very powerful tool for bloggers looking to brighten up their content. An attractive post, containing interesting images, often has a far greater likelihood of gaining attention from social media audiences, attracting natural links and more importantly actually being read in the first place! In this post, I’ve decided to look at some ideas and tools which I find useful when looking for inspiration in a new blog post.

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Find top rated Creative Commons images on Flickr
Lisa Barone recently talked about how you can make good use of Creative Commons (CC) licensed images on Flickr. However, if I don’t have a particular idea in mind; rather than performing a keyword CC image search, one tip I find very useful is to perform an empty query. A blank query from Flickr’s normal search won’t work, but an empty CC image advanced search will show all images which are available under the CC license.