Generate Potential Traffic & Backlink From Image Hosting Sites

Dear readers today I will provide you a different source of generating potential traffic (as i get lots of visitors from these sources) to your personal blog or website. You might know image hosting sites who give off millions of traffic to different sites via image link. We all very much familiar with Google images, Bing images and Flickr but apart of these networks there are much more sources where you can generate potential traffic for your only uploaded images.

When we write a post on our blog we upload different images to our web server, note that if we also upload our images to other image hosting sites like flickr, imgur, photobucket, imageshack etc. sites then we would have better chance to get potential traffic without having so hard work likewise promoting posts to social media.

Today by this tutorial I'd show you all where and how to get traffic from the giant image hosting sites on internet.

Google Images

The image search with Google images is owned by Google and introduced in July 2001, the service allows users to search the web for images. The search keywords used on Google images are based on the filename of the image, the link text pointing to the image, and text adjacent to the image. Google images provides millions of traffic daily to the website owners as like as Google web search. As Google is smart enough to appear the most popular pages on the front page similarly Google images shows images from the most popular sites according to image copyrights issue.

Once you upload an image to picasaweb.google.com you will see your image live after 2/3 days on Google images. If you use Google's Blogger then you need not to upload via picasaweb manually if you use blogger's default image uploader. Although Google images track different sources to locate the best and original images to appear in search results so if you don't upload images to picasaweb your images will also be appeared in results pages.

Bing Images

Bing images is the second big popular web for image searches(after Google images) for over billions of queries. They track images from sites submitted to Bing webmaster tools. Also Bing images are integrated with Google images so any kind of update comes to Google images also appear in Bing images. If you submit your sites to both Google webmaster tools and Bing webmaster tools then you have to do nothing since when you publish a post Google crawler and Bing crawler land on your page and track everything regarded Texts, Links, Headlines, Tags, Images, Anchor texts and much more things.

So publish original images(copyright to you only) through your posts, of course give keyword rich filename and you're done. Google and Bing both appear your images at the first range of search results guaranteed.

Flickr

If you use one of the biggest search engines Yahoo then you must know what is Flickr. Flickr is a free image hosting, sharing, and downloading site (powered by Yahoo) who offer 1 terabyte of huge storage for free. Everyday over millions of people search for images at flickr. Flickr is a complete storage of over billions of images and you can have their services on your iPhone, Android by downloading their app on Apple and Google play.

Once you upload an image to flickr the image will also appear on Yahoo images so you have better chance to get traffic from two biggest image search giants. Use flickr today.

Imgur

Imgur  is an online image hosting service founded by Alan Schaaf in 2009 in Athens, Ohio. Imgur describes itself as "the home to the web's most popular image content, curated in real time by a dedicated community through commenting, voting and sharing." Images are uploaded at imgur.com are tremendously scattered on reddit by millions of users and they get upvotes and downvotes on reddit competition. There are lots of images everyday come to the front page of different subreddits by redditors votes and imgur images get millions of views every single day.

Once you upload an image to imgur.com, give a unique name and description also add your post link so that users on imgur community can see your image, vote, share and visit your link. If  any of your images go viral on reddit or imgur community you will see boom of traffic that may be over thousands or millions.

ImagesHack

ImageShack is a subscription-based image hosting website headquartered at Los Gatos, California. According to Nielsen//NetRatings, ImageShack was the fourth fastest growing web brand in July 2006. You upload an image to ImagesHack and they can be downloaded, shared by users in the community. You have potential chance of getting both traffic and referral backlink from this image hosting company

FunkyIMG

FunkyIMG is a very simple image host that just plainly gets the job done. It also offers some interesting features not seen otherwise on this list. FunkyIMG doesn’t support adding multiple images through a prompt, but rather by drag-and-drop from the desktop or within Windows Explorer. FunkyIMG supports dynamic resizing, information labels, and even the ability to add watermarks, although the watermarks are very low quality.Your images can be shared on the community and you will get fistful of traffic from this source

PhotoBucket

Photobucket is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community dedicated to preserving and sharing the entire photo and video lifecycle. Photobucket hosts more than 10 billion images from 100 million registered members, who upload more than four million images and videos per day from the Web and connected digital devices.

UltraIMG

UltraIMG supports uploading multiple images at once, local or remote, at a maximum size of 10 MB per file. Clicking the Upload Preferences button will allow you to configure URL shortening, mark your uploads as NSFW, privately upload, and dynamically resize your images (by width) and share with the community. You can get referral backlink from this storehouse

PicooDle

Free image hosting, video hosting suite where you can upload images upto 10MB per file and share with the community. Your images may also be shared on social media sites. You can generate traffic from this service

TinyPic

TinyPic is a photo and video sharing service, owned and operated by Photobucket.com, that allows users to upload, link and share, images and videos on the Internet. The idea is similar to URL shortening in which each uploaded image is given a relatively short internet address. An account is not required to use TinyPic.