Did I get your attention?

Yesterday evening I posted Flickr albums of photos of downtown Antioch and Clublands Antioch (one of the 3 developments in my focus for my pretend real estate business).

A photo of Frye's Restaurant in downtown Antioch is now in the #  1 position on Google - in about 24 hours! Frye's is fairly popular, so my photo will get some views, and those views should drive some traffic to my site. I searched: Frye's Restaurant Antioch.

The set of photos of Clublands Antioch that I posted last night came up # 12 in search results on Google. I searched: Clublands Antioch.

The 72 photos I uploaded to Flickr last night have had 50 unique visitors in 24 hours - many, I'm guessing, from ActiveRain.

I did nothing special to make any of this happen, other than tagging my Flickr photos - and that should be a habit rather than anything out of the ordinary.

If I were doing this for real rather than as part of this tutorial, I would - over time - have photos of every business in the Antioch area on Flickr, with a brief note on each of them in the photo description. Many of those businesses have no Web sites of their own. I would totally own Google search results for Antioch for a while.

Hopefully you're beginning to see the power of Flickr to put you together with people who are interested in the area you focus on. Those people will be exposed to you as someone who brought them information they wanted to see, and some of them will visit your Web site / blog.

Added note: The day after I posted this AR entry, it took the # 1 position on Google for Frye's Restaurant away from my Flickr photo.

Previous posts in this series -

- Before you start to Flickr, focus

- My Flickr focus - a niche I can own

- Getting started wit Flickr, training wheels for bloggers