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Feb 15

Flickr Follows

I was working on my personal photo blog recently and I decided to start copying photos over to my Flickr account. I setup a separate set (group) called ‘Passionate Photo‘ hoping to drive a little Flicker traffic to the site. I made sure I had a good title, description and tags. I also added the following terms in the description of each photo:

flickr_link.jpg“Feel free to use this photo for your website or blog as long as the complete watermark stays visible and readable. If you need to crop out the watermark or it becomes unreadable please link to http://passionatephoto.com/ with photo credit.“

flickr_alert.jpgI was pleasantly surprised to see that my blog URLs on the main pages does not have the rel="nofollow" tag included. I noticed this when I received a Google Alert and clicked the link. (I use the SeoQuake Firefox plugin that helps me quickly see the do-follow links.)

Flickr.com has a Google PageRank of 09/10 and is rated 32 by Alexa.

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  • Hi Greg, Flickr is cool. You have some nice photos on your site too. I just finished an update to this post yesterday: href="http://extremeezine.com/zero-to-three-in-90-days-thanks-flickr/">Zero To Three In 90 Days - Thanks Flickr!

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  • Good stuff, I just tried it out myself. Flickr is the best Photoblogging site out there.

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  • Very nice post, I got also an idea for using flicker after reading your post, this is great. maybe I will share it with you when it's possible! Thanks a lot for your efforts.

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  • Nice find. Never would have thought Flickr follows. Thanks for this infomation.

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  • Hi Yan, It certainly doesn’t happen every day but I'm always on the lookout for others.

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  • I didn't realize you could easily get a backlink from Flickr. This is definitely worth a try. It doesn't happen every day, does it?

    Yan

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    You appear to have at least one of these disabled.'

    I'll try back later. I'm also following you on Twitter as ExtremeEzine.
  • How about that- thanks for sharing. I also have a flickr account and haven't really used it to drive traffic to my blog. However, I too have a photoblog at my site "simply blog." The pics I upload to flickr stream onto my social page at my site. :)

    -Mig

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  • @Brad: Thanks Brad, I need to get more pictures uploaded on my photo blog.
  • Hi Kristi, don't forget to add good key words too so they come up in the searches.

    I should of had everyone leave their Flickr profile links so I could add them as friends. Feel free to leave it if you want.
  • That's definitely good to know. I include my blog link on individual pictures, but I'll have to add some descriptions for the groups as well now. Thanks!

    ~ Kristi

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  • Good one. Thanks for sharing all this with us. I really like the idea of a personal photo blog….Go ahead in this profession.

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  • Thanks Dennis, I have fun taking them but they are not very professional.
  • Sweet find! Thanks for sharing. I also really like the idea of a personal photo blog...love the tagline dude lol.

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  • Hi Gennaro, thanks, I haven't really been promoting it much but it's one of those sites that's just fun to post to. I carry a camera everywhere and am always looking for a great picture.
  • Nice find. Never would have thought Flickr follows. I really like the set up of Passionate Photo. Nice display with lots of interactivity (rating, comments). A site would have a lot of trouble succeeding without that reader participation part of it.

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  • Hi Pheak, I found out entirely by accident. What's your Flickr acct. link? If you want others to see that it :)
  • that's some good info to know, i have flickr account with some interesting pictures on there as well. i might have to do the same
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