Image submission sites are part of off-page activities in SEO. Image submission sites are known for submitting images on different platforms to get backlinks and traffic to the website. Generally, by posting and publishing images on these types of websites, we can get more traffic to our website from different platforms, such as Pinterest, Facebook, and even Instagram, which allows us to share images.  We can write the image title, description, and keywords. There are high chances for the image to become viral, and it leads to more traffic because these platforms already have more visitors daily. Like Instagram, it is very well known and widely used; every day, millions of users spend time on it. And in digital marketing, every off-page activity is very important because, in the long run, these off-page activities give more and more consistent rankings in the Google search engine.  Whenever we create different images on different platforms, it improves our design skills as well. And in this guide, I mentioned my experience. I use different types of image submission sites for my website promotions. These boost my traffic immensely and increase the domain authority for my domain.

1. What are image submission sites in off-page SEO?

Image submission sites are one of the off-page SEO techniques; when compared to other techniques, it is the simplest technique to perform. In this, we submit images of our content to improve visibility and backlinks; it helps to reach our website content to more people. On online platforms, many popular sites are available to submit our images. Especially nowadays, these are becoming more popular for everyone to perform. By performing these submissions, our website rankings are improved in SERP.

2. Importance of image submission sites

Compared to other types of submissions, it is very different and has a high chance of getting more organic traffic. Let us discuss why it is more important.

• Visibility: Whenever we submit our images to high-value platforms, they reach a wider audience. Across the world, they have massive traffic. Our images also reach many people.
• Quality Backlinks: Quality backlinks are very important to our website. Without quality, focusing on quantity is not useful. Google gives more priority to the quality, not the quantity. In image submissions, we get more quality backlinks because all are very high-quality professional platforms; they have good domain value and page value, with low spam scores, which is very helpful to our website for boosting rankings.
• High Real Traffic: If our images are so attractive, then there is a high chance of reaching a wider audience, and it helps to generate massive organic traffic.
• Improved SERP Rankings: Performing consistently on this platform is ultimately helpful to achieve this result in SERP. There are high chances that our images and content will appear in SERPs. Many images can be obtained by performing this technique compared to others. On platforms like Pinterest, many pinboards are displayed in Google search results.
• Improve DA and PA: These platforms have high domain authority and page authority. It helps to improve our da and pa also. Compared to other techniques, these sites have high values.

3. Best 100 Free Image Submission Sites 

 

S.No	Website Name	DA
1	Flickr	92
2	Pinterest	94
3	Instagram	93
4	Imgur	91
5	500px	84
6	Tumblr	88
7	PhotoBucket	82
8	PostImage	77
9	FreeImageHosting	75
10	DeviantArt	85
11	Dribbble	89
12	Behance	90
13	ImageShack	80
14	Pexels	83
15	Pixabay	84
16	Unsplash	85
17	PicPaste	72
18	Shutterfly	78
19	Fotki	70
20	Ipernity	69
21	Mix (StumbleUpon)	79
22	We Heart It	74
23	TinyPic (Alt)	68
24	Archive.org Images	95
25	SmugMug	81
26	Fotolog	65
27	BigStockPhoto	82
28	DepositPhotos	80
29	FreeImages	78
30	Morguefile	76
31	Canva Gallery	73
32	PicJumbo	77
33	Reshot	72
34	StockSnap.io	74
35	Burst (Shopify)	82
36	Crello Images	71
37	Dreamstime	84
38	Alamy	87
39	GettyImages	93
40	iStockPhoto	92
41	Pond5	79
42	123RF	82
43	PicMonkey	76
44	Snappa	70
45	Visually	16
46	SlideShare	95
47	Issuu	90
48	Crello Community	69
49	DesignBold	68
50	Piktochart	80
51	Easel.ly	70
52	Infogram	82
53	Venngage	78
54	Visme	80
55	Photo.net	74
56	PicturePush	72
57	Zenfolio	75
58	Fotocommunity	71
59	SlickPic	70
60	Use.com	68
61	SlideServe	67
62	Zoho Docs	78
63	Calameo	82
64	Edocr	74
65	Scribd	92
66	AuthorSTREAM	42
67	SpeakerDeck	80
68	Zoho Show	77
69	Google Photos	94
70	OneDrive Gallery	92
71	Dropbox Gallery	91
72	Box.net	88
73	Slideboom	70
74	MySpace Photos	89
75	Friendster Gallery	66
76	Fotolia (Adobe Stock)	90
77	Adobe Stock	94
78	Canva Community	73
79	Posterous (Legacy)	65
80	HubPages	77
81	Medium	95
82	WordPress.com	94
83	Blogger	92
84	Typepad Photos	71
85	Ning Communities	74
86	Ello	36
87	Mastodon Media	82
88	Reddit	94
89	Quora Images	91
90	VK Photos	92
91	Baidu Images	93
92	Yandex Images	91
93	Line Album	84
94	WhatsApp Status Archive	80
95	Telegram Channels	78
96	Signal Gallery	72
97	Discord Servers	79
98	Slack Workspaces	77
99	Kaggle Datasets	85
100	Wikimedia Commons	95

 

4. How to Perform Submissions

1. Sign up: Select the platform and sign up with a Gmail account.

2. Complete Profile: Complete profile with bios and links with relevant, proper keywords for the website

3. Select Image: Create images based on the platform-related sizes, and change image names to the keyword name instead of image. 123.jpeg and compress using online compression tools like TinyPNG.

4. Submit Images: Upload images using titles, meta descriptions, and relevant hashtags; use categories and proper keywords. Submit by selecting image platform-size formats. Always follow platform guidelines; don’t do anything spammy.

5. Add backlinks to the website: Many platforms allow you to add a URL in the URL section. Add your website URL to get quality backlinks. Add only relevant URLs to avoid spam.

5. Advantages of Image submission sites 

1. Quality backlinks help to increase rankings and the value of the domain.

2. Indexing: Google crawls images and content quickly.

3. Huge Brand: Platforms like Pinterest are popular worldwide every day and generate millions of organic traffic; our content also reaches worldwide freely.

4. Engagement opportunities: likes, shares, and comments help to reach more audiences. Algorithms push when likes, shares, and comments happen

6. Conclusion

Performing image submissions is a significant approach to increasing website performance traffic. Performing these activities will be more helpful for bloggers because bloggers need more traffic for both Google AdSense approval and to earn more money. Bloggers, whenever they publish their blog-related images, they will get more social traffic from different types of websites.  If you submit your images with a catchy title and description, they will reach more people. Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, Reddit, Facebook, etc., in these platforms where users spend more time; because they are well-known and widely used, our images become viral if we share them, and they will reach more people. In my experience, these submissions help me to get AdSense approval from Google. My website received massive organic social traffic. I shared images on Pinterest, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Medium, and different types of sources.  In image submissions, we don’t get backlinks, but we get more organic traffic.