Yahoo Now Indexing Facebook Profile Pictures

Yahoo is now indexing profile pictures from generic Facebook pages. This could be an important development in SEM, particularly for Name/Brand promotion and management. See below. I did a search in yahoo for "eric bryant facebook" and my name, company logo and Facebook profile link showed up in position 2.

clipped from search.yahoo.com Eric Bryant on Facebook Add friend| Poke| Send message| View friends Eric Bryant is on Facebook. Not the Eric Bryant you were looking for? Visit Facebook to search for friends, family, coworkers. www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Bryant/668058031 - Cached

Yahoo Go! & Flickr

Yahoo Go! is a mobile PDA software application that allows users to customize the mobile phone Internet display.

Yahoo Go! has an API which allows you to send your PDA pictures directly to your online Flickr profile. So, of course, I'm thinking about how such an API could be used for Internet marketing.

First, let's talk about Flickr.



Another SEO benefit of Flickr is that you can submit your Flickr profile to del.icio.us. As I've explained in our Guide to Social Media Optimization, Del.icio.us is one of the top 10 social bookmarking sites. It is also one of the sites that leading SEO companies like SEOmoz use to determine overall Page Strength. For these reasons, the Flickr-to-Del.icio.us API has value for SEO.