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Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Blogging - Direct From Flickr

Why would you even want to do that?

Editing Workspace
Originally uploaded by imagebeam.com

Recently we've been having discussions with many of our clients and potential clients about the value of blogging. There are many ways maintaining a blog can be very beneficial, from supporting brand awareness to improving Search Engine Optimization rankings for your site.

The ImageBEAM blog is actually hosted by Blogger.com - which is a service provided by Google.

To impress you further (or maybe even confuse you... who knows :-) I actually created this post over on Flickr (yes - the photo sharing site). The photo above is showing one of our offices in Irvine - this is the one where we get to do our Video editing. When you upload photos to your Flickr account you have a "blog this" link. After a simple setup - you just click that button and within moments you have a new blog post featuring the photo you uploaded to FLickr.

There are some neat ways to support your SEO plan by setting up your own company Flickr account - to which you post relevant photos. The search engines crawl that site and "voila" - your site has some very useful links from a "high ranking" external site (it's a little more complicated than that... but not much).


This is a link to the Stemedica Flickr Channel - which is one of ImageBEAM's clients.