Hello, hello, my favorite Traffic Hacker:
Wanted to share with you something neat I just discovered – might be a great addition to your future marketing promos!
So I am working on redoing my Promote Your Blog: 10 Steps to Ultimate Blog Promotion post – you know things change, strategies improve, etc.
Flickr, the photo sharing site, has always been on my blog post promotion list as a way to back up my blog post images, get links, and maybe an occasional visitor or two.
It’s easy, so why not, right?
Well, today I was actually paying attention to what I was doing on Flickr (go figure… 😂)
And I discovered something… that made me all giddy.
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Ahem… Is it possible that by the end of this email you’ll lose all respect for me, as in ‘Can’t believe she didn’t know that; doesn’t everyone?…’
I’ll take my chances.
Up until now, I’ve been:
- uploading images from a newly published blog post to Flickr
- adding naked URLs (as in http://www.trafficgenerationcafe.com/emoji-marketing-guide/) to image descriptions
- had my setting on ‘All rights reserved’ – because they are… MINE!!!!!
Today I tried to actually use anchor text in the description and… it does work!
Mind blown… 💣💥
Not only that, but you can create albums based on your blog posts and add anchor-text description to your albums!
Not only that… but you can actually change your settings to ‘Attribution‘ – meaning anyone can use the image as long as they place a link back to you.
That way, people who are looking for free images to use for whatever – their blog posts, for instance – can actually find your images, might follow you back to your site, might share it with others…
You see all the possibilities?! I certainly do.
Yay! It was worth getting up at 4 am this morning… ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ ☕️ (yes, that’s four!) espressos might’ve had something to do with the giddiness as well…
So now, when using Flickr, I will:
- upload images from a newly published blog post
- add varied anchor-text links to image descriptions
- create albums based on topics or blog posts
- have my setting on ‘Attribution’ so that my images can be used by others.
Here are some examples of how I did it based on my newly published 😂, 💕, and 💩? Beginner’s Guide to Emoji Marketing post:
Easy peasy!
So… what do you think?
👍 ? 👎 ? Let me know!
From Ana with love ❤️
