Link Building with Flickr UPDATE

August 11, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: Link Building 

At the end of January, I made a post about how you could use Flickr to build massive amounts of insanely powerful links. Well, Flickr later added the nofollow tag to all external links, making them useless for raising your rank in the search engines.

End of story… or is it?

Today I discovered that the nofollow links are only added to comments on public photos. The “Groups” section is still all search engine friendly links. You can find related places to add your comments in the group section, or you can create your own group.

For the sake of an example, I created the Flickr group called Website Marketing Strategies. You can see it here. Notice the dofollow link from Flickr that use to be nofollow. :-)

If you really want to make it interesting, you can start doing google query strings to find groups that rank well for certain terms. Here is a good query to get you started:
site:flickr.com/groups/

If you have something to add, feel free to do so in the comments.

Comments

11 Comments on Link Building with Flickr UPDATE

  1. Chad Van Norman on Mon, 11th Aug 2008 9:49 am

    2. I am definitely going to be checking this out. Thanks for the info Collin.

    Chad Van Norman
    http://ChadVanNorman.com

  2. Neon Signs on Mon, 11th Aug 2008 1:29 pm

    3. great info and tip. I am new to this blog but from what i’ve seen its very cool. Thank you!

  3. OlariuAlex on Mon, 11th Aug 2008 3:17 pm

    4. good tip, didnt know. Thanks for sharing !

  4. Blog Flipping on Mon, 11th Aug 2008 4:11 pm

    5. That’s pretty genius. Would have never thought to try “groups” after seeing nofollow on the main pages.

  5. Link Building Bible on Mon, 11th Aug 2008 9:39 pm

    6. Sweet tip man…. how do you find these? i find decent ones and you find gold mines…

  6. chris on Tue, 12th Aug 2008 3:38 am

    7. have to leave a comment..great tip

  7. Website Designer on Tue, 12th Aug 2008 8:40 am

    8. Sweet! Creating a Flickr account as we speak. Great post.

  8. adda4u on Tue, 12th Aug 2008 9:37 am

    9. Thats good ..can u i post in all those groups???

    is it good thing ??

  9. Julie on Wed, 13th Aug 2008 1:56 am

    10. Thanks for this pointer :)

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  11. Tool Belt on Thu, 14th Aug 2008 10:27 am

    12. Great idea. Couldn’t these different groups be seen as authority links for your specific niche too?

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