Get traffic from Flickr

For a while, I have been thinking of using flickr, facebook and other web 2.0 sites in the marketing of my own websites. Inspired by this article I figured it was time to get started and try to get some traffic from flickr.


As suggested by yourwealth.org I started uploading some photos not related to my site's subject. I guess the point by doing this, is to make your flickr profile look more trustworthy and less spammy. I also customized my personal flickr profile - again to make it more trustworthy. After customizing my profile I uploaded my "real" photos - photos related to my site's subject.

When uploading your photos, remember to add descriptive titles, descriptions, tags and notes. It all helps attracting visitors for your photos. Also remember to add your link to the description. Just use plain HTML code.

Then I joined all the flickr groups related to my site's topic. In this case cooking, food and drinks. The more groups you sign up for, the more people will se your photos and hopefully click through to your website. But remember only to sign up for relevant groups. You don't gain anything from spamming. Some groups need approval, so it might be a good idea to upload some relevant photos also (if you request membership of a group about food you might want to upload some nice food pictures to your profile, so the admin can see that you will be an asset to the group). Also remember that you can only submit your pictures to 10 different groups per picture unless you have a "pro" member. I recommend you buy a "pro" membership so you can submit your photos to unlimited groups.

Then I submitted each of my photos to all groups relevant to them. My first 3 photos where all seen by around 100 other users within the first couple of weeks. And it even resulted in a little traffic to my website. Furthermore a few people either commented my photos or marked my photos as their "favorites". When people do that, makes sure you add them as your contacts. Tehn they will most likely add you as their contact, and then they will be notified about your future photos. This will provide more pageviews for your photos and you will get more traffic from Flickr to your site.

Once you have succeded with this approach on flickr, you can use the same approach on other photo sharing sites.

• Facebook.com - In spite of being mostly a networking site, Facebook is actually the worlds largest photo sharing site.
• Photobucket.com (but here you can't market your photos through groups, so you will probably get a lot less traffic from Photobucket).

You can't use this approach on these sites:

• Webshots.com (It's not possible to link from your photos to your site).

I wish you good luck, and hope you will get alot of traffic from Flickr and all the other photo sharing sites.