Add pictures to website or Slideshare

[rarbel]

For a law firm website looking to increase its traffic by offering pictures of cars that were in accidents, would it be more advantageous to add the pictures to the website directly (my inclination) or to Slideshare and put the embed code on the site?

Also, we will have an abundance of pictures over time. How would you organize them on the site to maximize their SEO benefit? Have a picture landing page, then links to individual months from the landing page?

Finally, assuming I go with a landing page with links to the months of the year (where that months pictures are stored), should each picture ultimately reside on its own page or is it sufficient to have all pictures for that month on one page?

[BenFox]

I'd host them on your site and include an embed code as well (for easy sharing). Unless you think having them on slideshare will make them easier to discover in which case I'd probably do both.

I can't say what would work best with regards to getting the images in the image vertical search but if you're looking at usability/sharability I'd definitely organise the images into monthly galleries that are easy to flick through.

Just out of curiosity are you anticipating this content to drive high value traffic or is it more of an exercise in linkbuilding?

[rarbel]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your answer.

We are anticipating it to drive traffic, presumably people will like looking at cars that have been in an accident.

I'm still not quite sure how Slideshare builds links back to the client's website. Any experience with this? Can you embed anchor text in the slides that link back to the client's site?

Yes, I think I'll put them in monthly galleries, now it's just a questions of where I'll load the images.

Rafi