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Social bookmarking, it’s what Delicious does (Digg is social news in contrast, while StumbleUpon is social browsing), is one of the best working things when it comes to the wisdom of crowds. While on Digg the ignorance of interest groups rules and StumbleUpon tends to lowest common denominator e.g. “funny images”,

social bookmarking really reflects popularity and quality of particular content.

There is even better social bookmarking out there, it’s (social) image bookmarking. It works even better as you don’t even have to visit the site the image stems from in case you’re busy.

So I present to you the top 7 image bookmarking sites for daily inspiration:

FFFFOUND!
The best image bookmarking is probably FFFFOUND! due to its limited access to friends and friends of friends of the founders. This way they ensure high quality if the images. It’s very graphic design oriented so you’ll find lots of self promoting designers and photographers with their works. It’s OK as most of it is of good quality but sometimes I get annoyed by the prevalence of ads for Nike shoes and the likes.

Incredimazing
FFFFOUND! is very popular as it’s appeals to the broader public. So occasionally you’ll encounter the typical babes, fun, fail and “motivational” images people on the Web apparently like. In between you’ll also find some incredimazing pictures too.

Typeish
Typeish seems to be a mix of the above FFFFOUND! and Incredimazing. It’s less mass oriented or graphic design oriented but you find elements of both there. It’s copyright is from 2007 so it seems the site does not get fixed all too often. Anyways, it’s a good compromise. Some of the babes are NSFW. You’ll find those elsewhere too but not as many.

vi.sualize.us
As with Typeish, vi.sualize.us combines features of those above but has a higher number of images. While Typeish is very limited in its functionality vi.sualize.us is more complex and feature rich.

we heart it
With we heart it it’s difficult to find things that set it apart from the others above. It makes explicit images of babes “unsafe” by default so that you can visit it at work too. Girl and woman are among the most popular tags. It’s similar to both Typeish and vi.sualize.us. From the technical perspective it’s somewhere in the middle of both.

pichaus
pichaus is a very minimalistic image bookmarking site. It has high quality images but the Adsense banner ads on top and at the bottom are quite annoying.

imgfave
imgfave is clearly the dark horse here. I didn’t know it unil now, I just found it via Google. It’s in the top 10 for the phrase image bookmarking. It’s based on the same microblogging software as Identi.ca but it’s more image bookmarking nonetheless. It looks quite similar to FFFFOUND! but the Verdana headline looks pretty ugly so it seems it’s a very alpha version as they didn’t even have the time to create a decent looking graphic or headline for their own name. It looks promising nonetheless.

Some people may criticize that it’s content theft due to copyrighted images being displayed on those sites. Maybe. In many cases I’ve seen images preserved by FFFFOUND! in that the original was off line by the time I found it there. So the public has access to an image archive n its truest sense.

SEO 2.0 is about optimization of all kind of media for Universal Search, social media and beyond.

Appealing to image bookmarking sites is a must use for all people doing something visual.

Don’t do it like “fun bloggers” aka the real content thieves or self promoting graphic designers who exploit those services. SEO 2.0 is based on legitimate usage of social media. My SEO 2.0 blog is hugely successful on Google Image search, I get more visitors via my image searches than via text based search. For instance I’m number one for the term WordPress.

Of course more people are interested in visual content than a niche topic which is also limited to written language, even English.

Next time I will teach you how to appeal to image searchers and what to do with this “useless traffic”.

Indeed I’m so popular on Google Image search that I am thinking about partnering with artists, photographers and graphic designers to provide illustration in exchange for lots of publicity. Want to get found with your images? Let me use them on the SEO 2.0 blog.

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