I recently blogged about Flickr and the value for business,
” With so many new social media sites (e.g. Facebook), ecommerce platforms (e.g. eBay), media (e.g. Source Bottle) and article banks(e.g. Free Sticky) popping up, navigating the World Wide Web is becoming a mammoth task for business owner’s everywhere!
On top of the day to day operational aspects of your business, you now have to contend with finding, and then becoming a part of, the “next big thing” online that claims it is going to forever change the way your business communicates online, explode your online earnings and increase your brand exponentially!
Frankly it is a daunting task to even the most tech savvy business owners and I would hazard a guess that not many of you would have unlimited time and resources to research and analyse every single site’s value to your business?
So I am going to do it for you and I will try and be as succinct as I can. One by one, I will be researching, analysing, summarising and providing “The Skinny” on sites across the web that could be useful for Australian business.
First cab off the rank is Flickr!
Flickr is known as one of the most popular image sharing sites across the globe (7th most trafficked social networking site on the web); it comes with a formidable amount of features that also makes it qualify as a social networking site. At a surface glance, Flickr’s popularity, structure and features appear to make it an ideal vehicle for business promotion and SEO.”
(You can read the rest here if you are interested)
The end result was, as per Flickr’s guidelines, using the service to futher your business, products or yourself is a violation, so I contacted the “Flickereenos” directly to ascertain the future vision of Flickr and whether this involves business being able to use it as a viable SEO tactic, and to their credit, they swiftly replied with the below …
” Hello Lauren,
Thank you for contacting Flickr Customer Care. As a matter of fact, you can apply for a commercial API key here on Flickr or to become a Flickr partner (commercial use is involved in both cases).
As regards of the first option please visit: – http://www.flickr.com/help/api/
Regarding the second option:
I’d be happy to pass on this request to our Business Development team
but need a bit more information (not all questions will apply):
About You & Your Company
- What’s your full name?
- What’s your job title?
- What company or organization are you applying for?
- Where is your company or organization located? (City,Country please.)
- How many people are on your team?
About Your Proposal
- Please describe exactly how you’d like to partner with Flickr.
- What is the benefit to your company?
- What is the benefit to Flickr?
- What benefit does it provide to our customers?
- Do you need a Flickr API key?
- What is the timing of this potential partnership?
- What do you need in the short term from Flickr?
Note: If you’d like to apply for an API license, please
see: http://www.flickr.com/services/
I hope this information is helpful.
Thank you again for contacting us. If you have any other questions, please feel free to reply to this email.
Regards, Flickr Customer Care”
While the information is great and the response time was fantastic, unfortunately the question of using Flickr as an SEO tactic has not been answered!
I have since responded to the team with a more direct question about Flickr as an SEO business tactic and am awaiting their round two response – I will keep you posted!
