I <3 Flickr
I caught myself thinking about what services I use online. Between online storage, email, web servers and my pictures, I use different companies for different things. I have lost my interest in Yahoo though I do follow their company information like the new CEO Carol Bartz. I have a Yahoo email address but I hardly use it. The only reason I keep my Yahoo ID is because they have the best photo storage and sharing site online. Flickr Rocks! I posted my top 100 pictures of 2008 and continue to add new favorites to my account.
I use Flickr as my online photo storage bucket. My wife is more of a photographer than I am but I have many pictures from Iraq and other trips that I have stored there. A lot of pictures I have collected over the years and many iPhone wallpapers I have collected. I was storing all of these pictures on my hard drive but ever with 1.5TB of space on my computers, pictures take up a lot of space.
There are so many great features to Flickr. It’s really a social media platform for people that appreciate photos. You can add friends, leave comments on great pictures and get some great stats on your account.
You can track the daily aggregate views of your photos and see how many times people are looking through your pictures. You can dig in even deeper and see what pictures are the most popular in your account.
I was completely ignorant to these features when I started using Flickr. I just uploaded my pictures and left it at that. I started paying attention to the statistics when I realized that I was getting traffic to my websites based on the images in my account. I added a link to a blog post on one of the images that I was using in the post and found that more people clicked through the link on the Flickr photo than were getting to my site through other means.
With so many people viewing pictures in Flickr, you can really help drive some traffic to your website by providing a link in the discription for people to click through.
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There are 5 comments. Leave a comment!
¬ Becki
#2861 January 14th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
That’s a great idea to add links to blog posts on flickr pictures. I’m sure it’s nothing new but I never thought about that before. Thx!
¬ Simon
#3101 February 8th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Hi,
Great post. I think marketing your website on Flickr is an outstanding idea.
btw: i really like your site …
¬ Gary Arndt
#3757 April 21st, 2009 at 11:45 pm
You haven’t shown that Flickr views translate to web traffic. You just sort of asserted it at the end.
Flickr is HORRIBLE at converting to web traffic. Horrible. Especially when you consider time spent in groups on Flickr, it is much better spent on other types of social media.
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¬ Photography Dude
#3934 May 23rd, 2009 at 7:31 am
Interesting – As a novice photographer I still feel swamped by the amount of information I still need to learn. However, the more i read, the more i learn. Thanks for moving me on a bit more
¬ Corey
#4838 October 10th, 2009 at 9:12 am
Good insight! I’m still trying to work out a good rhythm to incorporate my photography and design and still promote my site.
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