Flickr Axing Business Use of Photos for SEO
December 5th, 2008 by admin
One of the tools of the SEO trade has apparently been axed by Flickr. It seems like every SEO conference I have attended since Flickr went live included recommendations that Flickr photo submissions be treated much like HTML pages. The title of the photo, description, tags and any links in the description text work just like a standard web page and can show up in the search engine results. Here’s how I described it in my post SEO 101 – Image Optimization:
Post images to Flickr. Open a Flickr account and put unique photos in your account. Basically, each photo you put up is its own web page with a title, description and tags. You can include a link back to your site and share the photos with other Flickr users and social sites.
I went further by giving a demonstration of how this could work for SEO in an article I wrote called The Importance of Diversity in SEO where a given search result page could dish out your web pages, YouTube videos and Flickr photos in the results, giving you multiple opportunities to rank. (more…)
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