jfranktoo

For once, lets get away from technical stuff and go for the old fashioned - the web site visitor.

None of this will help your seo work or your pr, but it might do your visitor results a power of good.

Actually, it might do some good for seo - a bit. Run good pictures in your site then you can reduce the number of words in text perhaps, thereby increasing your keyword density. Then add alt text to the pics which gives you another keyword or two.

But Flickr. The photographs there are stunning, absolutely stunning. If a picture is worth 1,000 words then a top qualty picture must do wonders for your image. Your site visitors have got to feel good about you when the photos are good. In the travel business i've seen sooooo many crap pictures. When I gently mentioned to another cottage owner that you could see his wheelie bin on the index page photo of his property he said it didn't matter!

I've asked permission to use 10 different photos from flickr photographers, and every single one of them, every one, has said yes to my request to include their pic in my new web site. I've offered them a link and a credit in exchange. No one has asked for a fee.

Not only that, but they seem keen for me to use it, and all of them have answered the e-mail request within a day or so.

Flickr, I'm impressed. Better than the old fashioned way of nicking them off other people's sites. (I've seen my shots used and edited before now, no point in complaining.)


John

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