how to Use License free images on your blog from Flickr

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Few days back I talked about what is creative common licensing for Flickr and Wikipedia.

One of the biggest mistake any blogger does is they search for images on Google image and use them on their blog. If you are not aware of the fact, that you are not suppose to use those images because you are not sure those images are licensed under which parameter.

There are many websites from where you can use images without any issue or by giving a link back to the original poster.

Using Flickr Images on your blog?

Flickr is an Image sharing website from yahoo where people upload their images and all of them are licensed under particular license.

Flickr has an advanced search option which you an use to find images appropriate for your blog with proper licensing.

The second part is very important (Watch the image carefully). If you are making money out of your blog by placing advertisement, make sure you check the option Find content that an be use commercially.

One important thing even if you use those images on your blog, make sure you give a link back to original poster.

You can see an example here Are your really motivated for blogging

Link : Flickr advanced search

In case if you have missed my previous article on Flickr, I highly recommend to go and have a look there, you might end up driving some crazy traffic from Flickr.

How you can use Flickr to drive huge traffic to your blog

Tagged as: Blogging Tips, creative common, flickr, how to, images, traffic

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Google Image search introduces searching images with Creative Commons License | Java Blog | Veerasundar: July 10, 2009 at 19:14

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1 Nihar May 29, 2009 at 14:29: I do the same. May be i should stop using that method and follow the method you mentioned here.

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2 Team Nirvana May 31, 2009 at 21:14: That was an amazing tip which I had not been aware of earlier Harsh. I literally used to search and just use the images.

Now, I will take care not to do this again. Thanks Harsh for sharing the info.

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3 Ruchi October 12, 2009 at 20:32: This is really cool , i was not aware about it, i usually make the simple photos for my blogs on my own, can you tell me other site from where we can get photo for our blog for free.

4 Jaspal October 12, 2009 at 20:51: thnx for the info

5 Neeraj Kumar October 12, 2009 at 21:26: Good Post Harsh!Never thought about the license issues before.

6 gouthami.b November 18, 2009 at 16:18: Very good tip indeed…It’s really big help for me

7 Nitin Kumar Jain December 28, 2009 at 06:34: Thanks for the info Harsh… It is really going to help …