Getting links from Flickr
Flickr is one of the major photo sharing websites for those of you living under a rock.. In the past people, many people, have suggested that you could get some easy links to your site by simply looking for high PR Flickr pages and then posting links to your website in the comments.. Personally, I can’t stand this type of comment spam, it ruins communities and can cause users to not share their photos.. I’m glad that they put in the nofollow tag to help cut down on this type of comment spam..
That said, there is still a way to get links from Flickr and Flicker users while not descending in to the dirty spammer mentality..
The first step is to find a picture that you can use on your website..
- It can be anything, but something that is truly useful to you..
- Check the copyright info. most will be All rights reserved but many will be available for commercial use through Creative Commons.
- Follow the license and then contact the person that made the photo and let them know that you used it and appreciate the photo or video.
- Wait for them to blog about you or link to your website to show that they are a ‘professional’ because a commercial website thought enough of it to use it.
That’s it.. Simple really.. Will everyone link to you, no.. But that’s not the point.. You got a great photo for free so that has it’s own value.. But the potential for a nice link that isn’t comment spam, or from a generic link directory is worth the effort..
Finally, to make life even easier for you, because we all know how lazy you are when it comes to link building, check out this plugin for Wordpress that lets you search flickr by keyword, look at thumbnails, and even add the photo to your post with the proper attributes..
