Getting Links from Your Copied Images

Getting Links from Your Copied Images

Definition: If someone takes an image that you own and uses it on their own website without giving you credit for it, you can contact them and ask them to link to you because it is your image. This can work very well because it’s a totally legitimate thing to ask and many people will comply without thinking about it because the other option is for them is to remove the image. There are a few methods for doing this and you can even actively add high quality images to your website in the hope that people will use them.

Types of links you get: This method isn’t massively scalable because it involves manual work to find the images that have been copied and you need to send a customised email. You will probably get branded anchor text pointing to your homepage and the websites will probably be good quality. You can also make sure that you only contact high quality websites and not lose time contacting ones where the link may not add much value for you.

The process:

★ Get the URL of your image by right clicking on it and selecting “copy image URL” or

similar

★ Go to Google images and click on the camera icon

★ Paste in the URL that you just copied and click search

★ Scroll down to see pages that have used this image

★ Click through and verify it is your image

★ If there is no link in place, contact the website owner and ask them for a credit link

below the image

Additional resources:

★ http://www.paddymoogan.com/2012/04/10/infographic-link-building-reverse-imagesearch/

★ http://kaiserthesage.com/images-link-building/