Flickr

Helping you look good online
A free image hosting service owned by Yahoo.
Flickr is a bit like YouTube but for photos. Happy snappers everywhere use it to store their images before sharing them with the world.
Benefits

• While Flickr links are no-follow* you can ask that people who use your images credit you with a link. Okay, it’s going to be impossible to enforce, but generally people are pretty happy to give credit where it’s due so if you put images up frequently it could end up having a really nice impact on your search engine optimisation!
  
• Arguably even the no-follow links can have a positive search engine optimisation benefit as they act as a social signal to Google that your site is busy offering great content to the web.
  
• There are so many images floating around online that it can be tempting to just copy and paste without a moments’ thought for the legal implications. In the long term it is worth erring on the side of caution and acquiring images from legitimate sources, of which Flickr is probably the biggest!
  

Flickr Action

• Social - If you have a very photo heavy web presence then you can definitely make use of Flickr as an additional arm to your social media activity.
  
• Free images - If, like the vast majority, you are more concerned with finding great photos than supplying them, use it for adding a bit of colour to your blog and website – just remember to give credit!