If you have been using Flickr as part of your SEO strategies; most of that strategy just got deleted.
Flickr has added no follow links to External links and this makes them obsolete as part of your SEO strategy.
Of course you can still use your links to drive traffic to your website from Flickr. Your link is just not going to be followed by the Spiders any longer. This is due to of course to the spammers. They just seem to love to ruin things for everyone. They spam and spam thinking that they are going to get rich over night using these stupid good for nothing strategies. There are some people stupid enough to go to their sites and buy but it always backfires on the spammers so what is the point? It is selfish and a total disregard to others on the internet as well as the very consumers they are trying to attract to their sites.
Flickr is a great site to upload your images to so you don't have to store your images on your hard drive. It is also easy to use Flickr for hosting your photos that you use for blogging and then you just click on the image url and add it to your blog posts. So there are still great benefits to using Flickr.
The links in the Sets and Collections seem to not have the no follow link attached to them. Maybe this is because in order to set up sets and collections it takes some effort and some time which is something spammers stay away from since they are only looking for the fastest way to get their sites up on the search engine top pages.
I see this happening more and more. There is a great site called, Scribd and you can upload your articles and documents and then have a link back to your website from those articles. Well, as soon as Stompernet put out their amazing Web2.0 social marketing strategy video and mentioned using Scribd; guess who came running to ruin it for everyone! You got it right! The Spammers! Again, they go and ruin it for everyone that is legit! Within days Scribd added the no follow link to their site. Scribd is still a great site to upload lots of things and has a resource library. You may just get your article featured and that will bring you some publicity which is always good in our business.
Squidoo was Google slapped because the Spammers figured out a way to have software create hundreds of lenses within minutes. We all say our hard work on our lenses go down the drain and fall off the Google front pages. Squidoo had to stop allowing embedded content in order to get rid of Spammers. One guy in South America created over 500 lenses in less than 3 hours! What was his point? Squidoo has great self policing members and they will get rid of spam. Squidoo is back in the good graces of Google again and our lenses are now back on the front pages of the Search Engines. If you would like to set up a Squidoo lens on your market area here is my invitation for you to join Squidoo.
So with all the SEO link back techniques you can be using and creating remember to go back to writing great content and write good keyword rich titles to avoid being shut down when your links are no longer followed.
For more information about SEO consider reading my posts and tutorials:
Keyword Rich Content
Linking Strategies
Blogging For The Longtail
How to Get Google To Take Notice
Mybloglog tutorial how to add mybloglog to your blog
Mybloglog tutorial how to use mybloglog upgraded version
Mybloglog tutorial for how to use mybloglog part 2
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Well, that really kinda blows, thanks for the heads up. I have been looking into flickr, I am just glad that I did not give them a lot of my time.