How To Get Traffic To Your HubPages or Website Using Flickr
78Drive Traffic Using Flickr
Drive traffic with Flickr - Another low-lying fruit method for driving traffic
Following my hub about getting traffic from low-lying fruit sources such as Bing (MSN) I'd like to suggest another excellent low-lying fruit method of driving traffic to yourHubPages, blogs and websites: Use Flickr.com.
What is Flickr.com?
Flickr is a free image file hosting site that is owned by the search engine, Yahoo.com. To get your Flickr account simply visit Flickr and log on with you Yahoo! e-mail login/password. In addition to Google's Picasa and PhotoBucket.com Flickr is among the biggest free image file hosting website on the Internet today.
Why upload and host photos for your HubPages and websites on Flick?
When we're given the choice to post image files into our HubPages we're given the choice "from your computer" or "from the web". The advantage to hosting your pictures on Flickr.com is that Flickr is spidered by Google, MSN (BING!) and Yahoo! constantly and with time the URL links to your Flickr hosted images will eventually appear in the organic search engine results. Thus, you get a free traffic source to your Hubs.
A quick tip about your HubPage and website image files
Before you upload your image files to Flickr make sure that they're watermarked with either your website's URL or your HubPages nickname. For example, I usually use the watermark "Dawei888 on HubPages.com" on my Flickr images. If possible put your watermark discretely in the CENTER of your image. There are two reasons watermarking your images this way. A significant portion of the traffic to your images will be other webmaster looking for images for their own websites. If your water mark is in the corner of the image file they can easily crop it out and the image will appear as their own. Secondly, with your watermark clearly appearing on the image an Internet surfer could visit HubPages and simply search your HubPages nickname. You get it - FREE TRAFFIC?
Now the Nitty-Gritty - Uploading your image to Flickr
Once you're on Flickr click on Upload Photos and Videos. Now click on "Chose Photos and Videos." Find the photo you want to upload on your computer's C drive. Scroll down and click on the pink icon that says "Upload Photos and Videos". One quick tip here - be sure to call or "label" your image file with the key words of the title of your HubPage or blog post. This will help it to appear in the search engine results.
Next step - Add title, description and tags to your uploaded image
After it's uploaded you'll see a green check-mark icon. Click on "Add a Description". Here you have the opportunity to give your uploaded Flickr image a title, description and tags. In order for proper search engine optimization you must use all your key words here. Scroll down to the bottom of this hub and you'll see an image. I gave it the title "How to Drive Traffic Using Flickr" because those are the key words I'm gunning for in my organic search engine query. Next add a description. Again, you need to use the key words of your hub or blog post. For this image I put "Learn to Drive traffic to your HubPage, blog post or website using Flickr images. For more information visit for search Dawei888 on http://www.HubPages.com." Now go ahead and throw in a few tags. For my image here I'll use: HubPages, flickr drive traffic, flickr SEO, flickr get traffic. I'm sure I could come up with some better tags but those should do the trick.
How to find your uploaded Flickr image's URL to insert into HubPages
Your next step is to insert your Flickr picture's URL into HubPages. Here's how to find it. In Flickr click on HOME. Under "Your PhotoStream" you'll see all of your uploaded images. Click on the image that you want to appear in your HubPage of blog post. Now, However your mouse over the image and right click and chose "Properties". See where it says "Location" at the top? Copy that URL and paste it into your HubPages photo inclusion box. You should see your Flickr image appear.
Now - The Dawei888 BONUS for getting traffic with Flickr images! YEAH!
Okay, now you have a few images that you want to appear in your Hubs that have been uploaded to Flickr. If all goes well your Flickr images will get picked up and get indexed by the search engines. But, here's the thing: Each image you have in Flickr has its own URL! So, what you can do is take those image URLs and post them to the best social bookmarking sites such as Digg.com, Mixx.com and Reedit.com. Again, when you social bookmark your images don't forget to use your HubPage title's and contents keywords.
Let me know how it goes
I hope this hub about getting traffic to your HubPages and blog posts by uploading image files to Flickr has helped you to boost your traffic. If you have any other great ideas for getting traffic to your hubs let us know!
Cheers!
Dawei888 :-)
Flickr is an excellent tool for driving Internet traffic to your HubPages, websites and blog posts
Click on my latest hubs!
- keyword research tutorial
Micro Niche Finder Review Hi! - 19 months ago
- Halloween Super Affiliate Review 2010
On June 22, 2010 legendary online marketer Brian G. - 20 months ago
- Halloween Super Affiliate Bonus
Hi! - 20 months ago
- How to Buy Cheap Web Hosting Packages
In Internet marketing we must overcome our fears of technology and learn to use hosting accounts A lot of us are so afraid of technology. - 2 years ago
- eBay Niche Store - How To Make Money With phpBay Pro
My name is David and I make money with the eBay Partner Network Dear HubPage Fans, Readers, Visitors from YouTube and the Search Engines & Blogs: My name is David. - 2 years ago
- How to Extract and Activate Wordpress Plugins
It seems you must learn to make websites for eBay Partner Network If you're trying to make money online using the eBay Partner Network (EPN) you'll soon find out that EPN is leaning in the direction of havin... - 2 years ago
- How To Upload Wordpress Plugins
The next step after installing Wordpress on your domain is uploading your plugins If you're trying to make money online and do affiliate marketing for eBay Partner Network you'll eventually have to learn how to make your own website. - 2 years ago
- How To Install WordPress On A Domain
Making and creating your own websites is often unavoidable if you're trying to make money online If you're trying to make money online one of the things that you'll inevitably run into one day is the necessity... - 2 years ago
CommentsLoading...
Great and useful info. Will have to try it some time, thanks.
Hi Gypsy & Melody - Thanks both for your kind comments. I should try to write a hub on how to watermark pics. cheers, dawei888 :-)
This was a great post. Now I am going to have to read all of your post here on Hubpages.
Hello Otis - Thanks for your kind comment! Now I'll have to put up a YouTube video to show these tips in action! David :-)
Another great idea, another bookmark. You're like a machine! This is a terrific way for me to marry two of my hobbies: photography and writing. Thank you.
Hello Linda! Wow - Thanks for the kind comment! Yes, Flickr is a great way to drive traffic. You may also consider using Photobucket. Thanks again, david
Hello David :-)
So when you say you get more free trafic from flickr
that means that these pictures appears in the search engine results and people who see the writing for more information
search hubpages.. might go and search for you in hubpages.
It is not direct transformation to your hub,right?
By the way can i do it with pictures that are not mine but common creative?
Thank you again :-)
I never used Flickr before. IMAO Flickr was just a silly way to show off your pictures. I never think of it like a traffic source. I guess is time now ... :D
I honestly never even thought of taking that approach with flickr. kudos to you dude
What are the copyright issues involved with doing this? I use paid stock images, but I'm not sure that they would allow me to place their pictures on Flickr.com?
Great information. I never know that the picture can also help hub bring traffic. Thank you!
Amazing information. I am going to try it.
Thanks
Great advice, for another way to drive traffic to your website, the croping of pictures is true. the water mark is a good suggestion, thank you!
They are the most basic form of graffiti yet can convey emotion, can be complicated requiring skilled and artistic use of instrument, surface and speed.
Graffiti tags can be done with Ink based marker pens, paint based pens, a variety of modified household / industrial objects, brushes, scribes and spray paint
I honestly never even thought of taking that approach with flickr. kudos to you dude
UK Tabloid newspapers have a picture segment on page 3 of a topless model. Jordan shot to fame through her page 3 pictures, her career rocketed, she became a supermodel, TV personality and has made the front cover of many magazines including Vogue and Playboy.
Perez is certainly a popular celebrity blogger :D Thanks for the nice article
Perez is certainly a popular celebrity blogger :D Thanks for the nice article
Cool Free Website: Make Your Pictures Come Alive With MashFace And Your Web Cam71
rate or flag this pageTweet this
By sunstreeks
I recently found MashFace. Mashface is the creation of a 3D website development company located in Montreal's known as Xtranormal, Inc. They are the same company that lets you make short movies with 3D animation characters that say whatever you type. Mashface is in beta mode still.
MashFace lets users upload photos and do the cool tricks that have been seen on Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno. Take a picture of your friends and record your mouth over theirs using your web cam. You can make them say anything you want, even have your friends spend a minute announcing to the world how absolutley awesome you are.
My Daughter singing Bohemian Rhapsody
Ack Bad Lighting
As you can see it looks like my daughter has a 5 O'Clock shadow. My lighting was bad in the room and I was too lazy to fix. If you experience the same thing, get a desk light and face it towards you. This should lighten your face up more so that you can match the photo better.
How To Make A MashFace
Go To MashFace.com
Upload a picture from your computer or use one of theirs
Record with your webcam your mouth speaking, eyes moving, etc.
Start Mashing
Mashface has tools so that you can fit your webcam actions on to the picture to make it the right size.
Save and publish.
Share on YouTube, FaceBook, Myspace, etc.
Mashface gives you the tools to automatically post to many of the popular social networking and social bookmarking sites.
Rinse and Repeat =P
Taylor Swift's Love Story
MashFace is Easy
MashFace takes about 10 minutes to get the hang of. I had no clue what to make my pictures say so instead I had fun going to LastFM and playing music in one screen while recording my mouth movements in the other. Once my minute was up (at this time only a minute can be recorded at a time), I mashed it together with my picture, edited it so that it fit the face right, and pushed publish. Now all my FaceBook friends and anyone I want can see my MashFace video's.
In your MashFace account your can set up your YouTube information so that after publishing, it takes just one button to upload to your YouTube account.
Mashface is free. It's a fun little Web 2
usaitcompanies.com offers 21000 free usa it companies address with email.
Well written and useful - thanks.
I had never try to get traffic from photos. this is a great idea. thanks.
Hi dawei888, I though flickr doesn't allow commercial links of any kind in the photos?...... and the other question remaining is how do I watermark my photos? Is it possible with Microsoft Picture Manager 2007?
Hi I think this is a great idea you should make a video tutorial
Gypsy Willow Level 5 Commenter 2 years ago
Great idea, but how do I watermark my pic?