Pictures as part of your social bookmarking strategy

Not to many people consider pictures a part of their social bookmarking strategy. But when you look at social bookmarking as a way to promote everything you create for your website(s), it is not such a far stretch any longer to include pictures.

By submitting your pictures to social media sites you create more one-way backlinks and more opportunities for people to find your site. The same rules apply for pictures as for other information. Give your picture a good title and add tags that make it easy to find for those that are interested in the topics on your website.

When it comes to pictures, Flickr is the most well known (and highest trafficked). Flickr is not a bookmarking site, if you consider the option to vote pictures up or down a part of a typical bookmarking site. There are others, though, that do have that feature included. Take for example vi.sualize.us, with a page rank of 5. Once you submit your picture, others can vote your picture up by clicking the “like it” button. The more people that cast their vote the more traffic you are likely to get to your site.

Another great example is picfor.me, with a page rank of 4. This site is also a typical bookmarking site, with a “pick me” button to make the picture more popular. Picfor.me let’s you add a bookmark button to your toolbar browser, that makes it very easy to bookmark pictures. Once a picture is bookmarked, you will see that picfor.me logo in the top right hand corner of the picture.  There are many others, like  incredimazing (PR 4) and typeish (PR 4) that are worth considering also.

I started out by saying that only few people submit their pictures. I am sure that you have already realized what a great opportunity this holds for you. After all, the competition is still minimal. Furthermore, you have the picture. How much work is it to submit to a few of these sites? Especially, when you increase the visibility of your blog and the traffic that results from it.

To your success,