You’re missing out on a lot of potential traffic if you aren’t working your images into your search engine optimization efforts.

And we’re not just talking the ALT tag. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing writes on using sites like Flickr.com to boost your SEO attempts.

Flickr, for example, allows you to create a separate page for each photo. This page has meta tags you choose – title, description and keyword tags as well as H1 title, and keyword anchor text backlinks…

…This is a potentially potent way to create some nicely optimized backlinks to your site and generate page views of your products, events, announcements, people, and activities. Once you know how to navigate around Flickr it’s pretty easy to create lots of these pages.

Get more tips for this Flickr.com photo strategy here.