Did you stop using Flickr because of the NoFollow rule? – Think again…
Everyone jumped on the Flickr bandwagon hoping for some free SEO help, and we all got it until that day that Yahoo added ‘NoFollow’ to tags and comments. Boo, hiss. Wait, all is not lost. What you need to do is get right over to this blog post and take some notes:
http://www.bigoakinc.com/blog/flickr-is-not-useless-for-seo/ -
Flickr is NOT useless for SEO by Will Paoletto
1.) Flickr has not added nofollow to discussion boards. For those of you who liked to scout out high PageRank pages and just drop your link as a comment to the photo, which could be accomplished easily if you owned a link-laundering website, you can still do this in the Flickr group discussion boards. Flickr has not yet added nofollow tags to those, and given the preponderance of discussions that revolve around people sharing photos, you can just as easily drop relevant external links in the discussion and reap link juice benefits.
2.) Flickr has not added nofollow to personal profile pages. If you have a personal profile page, you can place targeted anchor text on it, point links at it, and receive full SEO benefit as it gains PageRank.
3.) Flickr has not added nofollow to group pages. If you own a Flickr group, you can still put as many links as you wish on the main group page without fear of them being turned into nofollow.
