For any blog the best source of traffic is search engines (Organic traffic). Such traffic ultimately convert into real readers.
Though I already discussed alternative ways to generate backlinks and traffic for your website:
One of them is using The list of Dofollow and popular forums
and Using alt tag into images to drive traffic from Google image search result
Recently when I attended Bloggers meet organized by Amit Agarwal in Agra, he talked about generating traffic from Flickr. He talked about one simple method which I discussed at the end of the post, And there are few others ways which I find doing my research.
After my post on bloggers meet one of the commentator asked
How you can drive traffic from flickr?
Flickr is a high PR site # 9. Getting a backlink from Flickr using your anchor text will be a great way to increase backlink. Though Flickr added a nofollow attribute to all of the external link recently, but you can use it to generate lots of traffic from Flickr and for brand building.
Remember my post on how to become Digg power user? I talked about submitting article from white listed website is a great way to make your submission popular. Flickr is one of such white listed domain which is loved by Digg. Stumble around Flickr and submit the best article with some nice title. If you are not familiar with Digg, do read my article on Digg : The beginners guide.
Cutting the long story short and coming to the point : Driving traffic from Flickr.
When any story is submitted to Digg and if it pops out, the website get lots of traffic (More then 20K) atleast, and story stays on digg homepage for 30 days.
Though the first strategy here is little unethical and even if you try it , make sure you use a separate flickr ID to generate traffic.
Unethical method to get traffic from Flickr
Search for something on Flickr which resemble your keyword like Torrent, technology.
You can simple use Google method to find this Site : Flickr.com torrent
Now go on start commenting on those photos, try to add meaning-ful comments along with your anchor text and link back to your blog.
See the screenshot as an example.
Now if you are a Digg user and see any story popping up or any story which is popular, go and comment using the same above strategy.
Though the traffic will be less, but even if you single comment can help you getting 1000+ unique visits in a day. It is worth commenting on a post.
I highly recommend try it on your own risk, or use a separate account to use it.
Ethical method to get traffic from Flickr
The above method sounds little unethical but there is another great way of increasing traffic.
I’m sure when you write a post, you create your own image, screenshot or edited picture. Upload them on Flickr and add a brief description saying Feel free to use this image but give credit to Shoutmeloud.This way you will get a linkback to your image with proper credit.
Don’t forget to read about understanding copyright creative common licensing method on Flickr and Wikipedia.
You can see an example of this http://www.flickr.com/photos/denharsh/3431096632/. When I wrote a post on give your desktop a 3-D look with Bumptop,
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Nice post bro,..
thanks 4 visiting my site anyway,.. 
None stop with traffic ideas. Keep it up. Those that use pictures a lot are going to really eat this up.
@ Kush
This will help those people who use pictures extensively as well as people who use little picture.
I suggest using flickr desktop client to easily upload images in your flickr account. You never know which of your image can give you huge spike on traffic.
That is so true, never know what can happen.
Hmm..never thought of this strategy before. Is it safe enough to assume that you’ll never get banned from Flickr though? Or Flickr going downhill?
Because when it happens, we’ll end up with hundreds of posts with 404 images
Michael I’m not saying to host your image into flickr and hotlink it on your blog. Rather I’m saying when you take a screenshot upload it on Flickr and add a cc attribute with link to your blog.
Ah gotcha. I usually put my url on the images when I embed them on my blog post. Guess I have to take out the URL if I want to upload them in Flickr too (to encourage people to use the images)
Now a days Google is counting many nofollow links, i observed this many times.I have many Nofollow links crawled as backlink in Google webmaster tools.
So Flicker links can make magic. ! as link juice.
And about traffic, yes flicker is really good way for traffic,. Using stumble upon you can driver indirect traffic to your blog through flicker. !!
Chetan That’s a good point here, Stumble upon can also be easily use to drive traffic to Flickr and thus your blog.
Hi Harsh,
This is one of the most informative post for me I’ve ever read on the net.
I really appreciate your skills and also thank you for sharing it.
I’m going to give it a try.
Thanks again
Thanks mohit
I’m glad that you likes it. Welcome to Shoutmeloud
Very Helpful information thanks i have spend one hour to read and grab it properly now going to implement it.
It’s actually easy to implement . All you need to do is to make it a habit of uploading all the images ti flickr.
nice tutorial. thanks . now i feel interested in flickr as well