Russell Davies Invents Flickrtising
Marketallica points to Flickr user Russel Davies who's placed a photo of some books on his Flickr page and added notes about the books with a link to Amazon if anyone wants to buy them. Of course, he uses his Amazon affiliate ID number so he makes money if anyone does choose to purchase. Not that anyone wants Flickr overly commercialize but since marketers have taken over MySpace, it makes perfect sense for them to upload images of all their products to Flickr, tag them with notes and add a link to a more detailed product page of to a place where a person could quickly buy the product. Watch it happen. Because you know it will.
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Hey, I'm no marketing prude, but I would hate to see flickr become another portal for affiliate marketers. It's bad enough that we have to endure Google ads in the margin, but I pay to have my flickr account. Can't we have a little space that isn't ads and someone trying to hustle a buck?
Business is business :-) And you're reading an advertising weblog, Stephen!
I do not like flikrtising, but it looks better than advertising
Yeah, a friend of mine did this a few months ago with his luggage tags (jidesignschicago.com) on Flickr. I think it's ok if it's done tastefully. He's gotten some pretty positive feedback.
Flickr images get good SEO, so I've been doing "flickising" for about a year now. It works well.
Could anyone tell me, whats so horrible about purchasing a book via an affiliate-link?
After all the pictures of the book and the notes about them made someone findout that he/she wants to buy this book.
Where is the harm?