(Couldn’t resist the pun.)
Now we all know that people love to see pictures when you blog. Especially funny ones, or those which help the explanation.
So I’ve been doing this for years, but never twigged that I could be getting incoming links as well as giving outgoing credit for those I use.
How to do this:
- Go to Flickr (a great and “old-time” picture sharing host) and search for images under advanced search (http://www.flickr.com/search/advanced)
- Click the three boxes at the very bottom (scroll down) so you are looking only for Creative Commons-licensed content.
- Enter your search query and select the one you want from the results which come up.
- Copy the image location (right click and select from menu)
- Insert this image by pasting the image location into the box which calls for it (whatever you use for blogging).
- Be sure to link back to the image location, so the author gets credit.
Now, this is all I was doing before – and then I saw those comments down below. I noticed that some were giving links telling the author where they had used their image. Links – see?
So I tried this myself and found out what – that you can give the keyword text you are using for that blog post (the title in your All-in-One SEO plugin under WordPress) and so get a link back to your site for exactly what want to get search engine recognition for.
Cute, eh?
Now this is not saying that you are going to be getting link love or anything like this. But since you want to give credit back to the author for posting such a great photo – you might as well leave a little link to your own. After all – you are already there, already have the keyword phrase have spent your time and sweat finding…
I’m sure there are more of this type to use – let me know if you find anything, just use the comments below…
Cheers!
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Oh – and yes the posts are coming along nicely. I just found Windows Live Writer, so hope to get this sped up now. I was busy with some other blogs, plus this great fellow from India who emailed me is just firing up his own self-help blog (under my tutorage) so I’ve been spending some time getting him started.
So I’ll start getting all these posts set up and scheduled for you. A Dozen or so are already in the pipeline, so stay tuned…
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Update: 0909925
An additional point you want to do is to “favorite” the image. This helps the image get higher ranking in Flickr – which helps the owner. And also, every fave goes back to you – so they can see the other things you faved, which all have a link to your website, as well as your Flickr profile. (So make sure you have the website you used linked into your profile…)
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