There are a number of photography related websites available where one can view, buy, share and upload all types of images. Linking to these sites and getting them in turn to link to my site is going to be an important part of my search engine promotion activities in the coming months. Community sites such as Flickr, Snapfish, Yahoo Photos. The list is large and growing. Like all marketing activities – online and offline – I need to decide on the end goal. It requires some thought and a level of planning.

I have long been involved in the web business but my focus has been on building the sites, not raising the profile of these sites in the search engines. I am now turning my focus for a while to this as I need to build the profile of bambooo.co.uk a new online magazine for contemporary black british people that features news reviews and features on life in Britain for people of African and African Caribbean heritage. Whilst I have done the basics such as submitting the URL to major search engines like Google and Yahoo, I need to increase the…