Increase Your Yahoo Traffic With Flickr Images

This is something I’ve been doing for some time now and have noticed a significant jump in Yahoo traffic. Using Flickr images on your site works great for not only Yahoo, but I’ve noticed more listings with Google images.

So why is this a good idea?

Flickr which is owned by Yahoo places a higher importance on images hosted here with their defined image search. This is nice 2-fold because you can add multiple tags to your photos once images are uploaded here. By adding tags your essentially adding multiple keywords which come up in searches on Yahoo. These images can be made further relevant by adding your photos into defined sets.

Here’s an example of a keyword laden Flickr page.
Here’s an example of a effective Flickr set – keyword: Large-format-digital-printing

Here’s the process

1. Sign up for a Flickr account here.
2. Upload your photos.
3. Keep your image titles specific as those will be given the most importance by the search engines.
4. Tag each photo with your set of most relevant keywords. You can add more or delete words at any time so go nuts.
5. Add a backlink in the default comment section of each flickr post.
6. Post images from Flickr on your website and link back to them. This will help increase your Page Rank and will create a backlink to your website or post that will make it more relevant.

Keep it relevant!

As with everything S.E.O. related you need to keep your keyword in mind. Tagging your photos with relevant search terms and long tail keywords will help raise your organic rankings.