Photo Pin Rules! Search Creative Commons Photos

Pete Prestipino
by Pete Prestipino 06 Jan, 2012
Photo Pin Rules! Search Creative Commons Photos

Every blogger that I know has the same problem - finding images they can use without having to break the bank to use one of the often expensive stock photo sites.

If that sounds familiar, have we got a site for you. Photo Pin, an application developed by Markus Urban, uses the Flickr API to search Creative Commons licensed photos, and breaks them out between those for commercial and those for non-commercial use.

Photo Pin users are essentially searching Flickr topics using the Photo Pin search facility, can preview the photo and even click "get photo" (which provides code snippets) to download the photo which includes the proper attribution link. Photos can even be purchased when necessary. The paid results take users to fotolia to buy photos, but the free Creative Commons results from Photo Pin (which actually works way, way better than Creative Commons itself for searching Flickr photos) is going to be the way to go for a vast majority of users.

Pete Prestipino
Pete Prestipino
Digital marketing executive with proven experience in all aspects of search engine optimization (SEO), performance-based advertising, consumer-generated/social media, email marketing, lead generation, Web design, usability, and analytics. - 20-year Internet marketing veteran, currently serving as the Digital Marketing Campaign Manager at Antenna Group (formerly Chicago Digital). - Former Editor-In-Chief of Website Magazine, and a regular speaker on Web technology digital marketing strategy - Author of several books on digital marketing Including Web 360: The Fundamentals of Web Success; Affiliate 360: The Fundamentals of Performance Marketing; Domains 360: The Fundamentals of Buying & Selling Domain Names, and SEO 360: The Fundamentals of Search Engine Optimization.