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This is maddening - using stock photo sites to get backlinks. Take original photos from your phone. Create images in Canva, Photoshop...
This is maddening. Take original photos from your phone. Create images in Canva, Photoshop, niche specific images, location photos, data visualizations, infographics, charts, anything relevant to your topic.
Upload them to free stock image sites. UNS, Flash, Pexels, Pixabay, Flickr, Creative Commons. Here's where it gets crazy.
The attribution credit fields link back to your website. These stock photo platforms have crazy domain authority. The images get pulled by bloggers, journalists, designers every single day.
Every time someone uses your photo and credits you, that's a free backlink from their website with zero outreach. You are scaling backlinks by doing nothing. Reverse image search your photos, use Google or Tiny Eye.
You'll find dozens of sites using them without proper attribution. Email these site owners asking for a source credit link, or even have an AI do it for you. Conversion rate on these is insanely high.
The site owners know they already took your content. They know they owe you the link. Zero cost, great anchor text come pounds forever.
The more images you put up, the more links you get. Look at this top comment. We tried something like this with our blog images.
Didn't expect so many backlinks from just putting them on free sites. Surprising how well it worked. People complain about there being limited free backlinks opportunities.
In reality there are many ways to engineer them.
Publishing original, relevant images to stock/Creative Commons platforms can create attribution links and later link-reclamation opportunities.
Consider original visual assets as an earned-link experiment, tracking usage and requesting proper source attribution where licenses require it.
This source is connected to Link building / original images, Image syndication backlinks.
This is maddening. Take original photos from your phone. Create images in Canva, Photoshop, niche specific images, location photos, data visualizations, infographics, charts, anything relevant to your topic. Upload them to free stock image sites. UNS, Flash, Pexels, Pixabay, Flickr, Creative Commons. Here's where it gets crazy...