5 Ways That Can Dramatically Increase Your Exposure By Using Flickr!

     Sorry for the misleading title guys!  I guess I've been working too long and wanted to have a bit of fun.  As you can imagine by now, my post will not include five ways that you can increase your exposure.

     My experience with Flickr was pretty basic.  I can't imagine someone not being able to get on the site and quickly create a profile and upload some photos.  I did have to do a quick Google search to make sure that I wasn't missing anything.  It seemed pretty basic to me.  I use Flickr for my own business but just to get social proof for Google.  I don't have any photos uploaded nor am I trying to get anything in Flickr ranked in Google.  I think I spent more time trying to find suitable images that no one else would use rather than uploading them to the account.  I couldn't find many RSS feed photos that were that original, so I did have to use a generic one of those.

     I posted three photos.  On the first picture of the RSS feed, I tagged it with the keywords RSS, Feed, and Web, and 2.0.  RSS had 561,415 other images with the same tag.  Feed had 7, Web had 3, and 2.0 had 56 different photos.  The second picture was of a guy holding a magnifying glass to represent searching.  I tagged it with the keywords Search and Searching.  Both had 11 other images with the same tags.  The third photo is an image of various Social properties.  I tagged it with Social which had 27 different pictures tagged with that keyword.  Sharing, which had 224 other pictures tagged with the same keyword.  I also tagged it with "Profiles" which had six different images tagged.

You can find my Flickr account by clicking HERE

Rodney

GigaOM

     Creator of GigaOM, Om Malik, first started a personal blog under his name and later founded this company in 2006. He left his job at Business 2.0 magazine to start this company. It has now grown into a million visit blog in per month. The posts are usually about start-ups, trending and emerging technologies, and other topics related to technologies. The headquarters is based in San Francisco, United States and currently run by Knowingly Corp. It has a massive network of blog posts which are organized and separated into different topics like Apple; Business and Finance; Computing Devices and Electronics; Gaming; Google; Broadband, Cable, and Internet; and more.

     It has a massive number of visitors to its blogs each month; 6.5 million unique monthly visitors and 2 million mobile reach per month. It is famous on social media too, with more than 300,000 followers on Twitter, near 50,000 on LinkedIn, and more than 100,000 followers on its Facebook page.

     It hosts technological conferences under the Gigaom events banner. It also launched its subscription-based technology research service called GigaOM Pro in 2009. It serves two primary consumers; innovative technology vendors and business leaders who want to study the market, competition, latest technological trends, and changes. It also acquired PaidContent, an online media hub of digital world news, in 2012.

     In March 2015, the site was shut down for a while because it couldn’t pay its creditors. However, Knowingly Corp. acquired it in May 2015, and it again started publishing content after two months.

TechCrunch

     TechCrunch is a leading American media publisher of technology industry news; with headquarter in Bay Area, United States.  It was created by Michael Arrington and Keith Teare 12 years ago on 10th June 2005. It covers breaking tech news, reviews of new internet products, analysis of new trends in tech. Industry, and also profiling of new tech startups. The blog posts are researched and written by renowned journalists, for example, Michael Arrington, Alexia Tsotsis, Mike Butcher,

     Matthew Panzarino, Andrew Keen, Chris Dixon, Steve Gillmor and more.
The success of TechCrunch blog was quick. It was started by the Michael Arrington at that time when Web 2.0 was coming to the market and making a noise to the world. The blog became famous within a year with several million page views every month, also drawing the attention of entrepreneurs and VCs.

     It has enormous followers on social media, 8 million on Twitter and more than 2.5 million likes on Facebook page. It gets a considerable amount of traffic each month on its blogs and network of websites, 12 million unique visitors and 37 million page views per month.
   
     CrunchBase, a database created by the TechCrunch on 2007. It operated till 2015 and was an open database about startups, investors, and incubators. Registered members could submit to the database but before accepting it was reviewed and checked by the moderators. It claimed have 2 million users accessing its database per month in 2013.

     It is available in English, Chinese, Japanese and French languages. The TechCrunch Disrupts, an annual conference hosted by it, was started by Arrington by throwing parties at his home in Silicon Valley. In these meetings, startups showcase and launch their products and services for media coverage and publicity.