You probably know that Flickr can be an excellent resource for links as well as traffic. My previous method involved making a quick comment on flickr images that appear on the front page of Digg and generate up to 500 clicks. However just like on most website we can’t really go around plugging our link everywhere without getting banned. Or can we?
After doing a bit of backlink research yet another method has popped up. Have a look at glitter graphics and their 3 and a half million backlinks. Can you see how a lot of these come from flickr? Lets take a closer look at one of the pages. Can you see a little animation of two cats? Its an image link back to glitter graphics. However it is not too seo friendly. I took mine to the next level.
I used a little smily from this blog and added alt=”keyword” as well as title=”keyword” tags to my html code. You can see the final result here. The smily at the end of my quick comment looks natural and small enough not to attract unnecessary attention. Now I can go whitehat and leave quality comments on related pictures or alternatively adopt blackhat tactics and bombard every page possible.
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I have one staff member do this almost everyday since I read this blog. Sadly someone hacked my account on Flickr and I went from a Pro paid membership to nothing???
This must have sucked. All this work down the drain.
Geniusness! This seems like it could also be applied in several other areas besides flickr. You could make a set of emoticons and just link them up with all kinds of different comments. Copy and paste links! I love it!
Well I got all fired up, developed a plan, generated my code to start getting this going. Then sadly I realized that just a few days ago flickr went NoFollow. Good idea though, I am going to try and apply it elsewhere, perhaps slightly modified.
Yep, in fact for some of the websites that give away various smilies and banners you can plug into your forum posts rely on this for their backlinks. Nobody ever howers over the smily. You can even grab a preset smily various places allow you to post and link it to your website.
Ilia Either I’m dumb to understand the concept or need some more insight on this… Can u explain more how you can use it to create a backlink to your website and keyword?
The backlink is the image. You are basically linking to your website with the image. There are no anchor text involved but with the right attributes such as alt you can still optimize a particular keyword.
Wow! Great idea Ilia, thanks for the tips..