Promoting Products and Services Using Photo Sharing Websites

Pictures of Rubbermaid products are showcased on Flickr for the public to see.

Rubbermaid, the American distributor and manufacturer of household items, has been using Flickr to display photos of Rubbermaid products for people to see. Acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, the photo sharing website Flickr has a total of 51 million registered members as of June 2011.

Over the years, there have been a lot of not-for-profit organizations, e-commerce businesses and large corporations that have reaped a lot of benefits from using photo sharing websites. For instance, Flickr has a solid base of users that businesses can exploit and it is extremely popular with search engines.

The Main Benefits of Using Photo Sharing Websites

• Tons of prospects use photo sharing websites to look for your products.
• It’s easier for the photos of your products to appear in search results if you submit the photos to established photo sharing websites.
• Photo sharing websites can provide inbound links to your website that can help increase your website’s traffic and improve your search engine rankings.