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

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.

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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Article by Harsh Agrawal

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