One of the biggest mistake most of the 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 of copyright issues.
There are many websites from where you can use images by giving a link back to the original poster. One of them is Flickr where we are allowed to use images for commercial purpose by giving credit link.
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.
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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I do the same. May be i should stop using that method and follow the method you mentioned here.
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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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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.
thnx for the info
Good Post Harsh!Never thought about the license issues before.
Very good tip indeed…It’s really big help for me
Thanks for the info Harsh… It is really going to help …
thnx for the information..will be using it from now onwards..