Hello,

I have a corporate, non-affiliate site with access to tons of photographs of customers. It seems to me there are at least three ways to effectively use photos:

• Social Media and Social Bookmarking... FB, twitter etc
• Image Servers like Photobucket, Imgur etc
• Have a photo gallery in your own directory... Coppermine, 4images

Question:
What am I missing? It seems like an easy way to generate dynamic content with ALT tags and relevant naming. 95% of the people out there just throw pics into Facebook or NoFollow directories like Pintrest, Igur etc.

Certainly, they all have merit. Even NoFollow sites, while not Google friendly, drive traffic but seems like a personal photogallery is a big advantage and complement the other methods:

Photo servers (Tumblr, imgur) = Great organic traffic but poor for Google
Personal Gallery = Great for Google but poor for organic searches.

Perhaps photo gallerys are a pain to maintain? Too easily hacked?

Which Photo Gallery can you recommend? I use 4images. Its ugly and cumbersome but I really like the funtionality.



Thanks!!