As you already know the ‘Market Content’ section helps you create html code that you can paste into your own website or blog. With this code, you can create thumbnails of your images that link directly back to your LicenseStream account. That way, anyone, anywhere in the world who sees one of your thumbnails can click on the image or related link button to begin licensing on the spot.

But did you know that you can also:

•  Use the html code to link to your licensing page from your Flickr images?
•  Use larger, preview-sized images instead of thumbnails to link back to your licensing page?
•  Link directly to your licensing page from your own or another website?

In each of these cases, all you need to do is modify the html code we provide to make sure it links back to the correct content – usually a licensing page within your LicenseStream store. Here are a few quick examples and tips on leveraging HTML code to better market your content.

Link from Flickr

1.   Say an image buyer for a travel agency finds your amazing image of underwater diving off the coast of Hawaii on Flickr. To make it easy and seamless for them to license that image, simply provide a link that will take them from the Flickr image directly back to your LicenseStream account (add the html code to the description field for the image). Before adding the code that follows below, modify it by replacing the image ID after id= with your own image ID from the html code provided in the Market Content area:

<a href="http://www.licensestream.com/LicenseStream2/Shared/Dispatcher.aspx?id=cfb140f7-f793-4a2e-bec9-830f7aa5d1c2" rel="nofollow">License this image</a>

Once it is modified, add it to the description field for the image.
Example from Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/uschi1306/3725097329/in/set-72157621406631921/

Showcase Your Photography

2.    If you have a visually superb photograph that you want to showcase, you may want to display  larger images instead of thumbnails. To ensure that anyone clicking on that larger image can begin licensing it with a mouse click, simply modify the html code by replacing the text ‘Thumbnails’ with ‘UserComps’ in your html code:

<a href="http://www.licensestream2.com/LicenseStream2/Shared/Dispatcher.aspx?id=3071c372-1531-4c0c-8d58-9d1b6423f2fa"><img src="http://www.licensestream2.com/LicenseStream2/ContentStorage/47/

UserComps/fdemp5bb.jpg></a>

Example of a linkback from a larger image:

http://www.uschigerschner.com/PhotoArchive.html

Link from your Own (or Another) Website

3.   If you have a LicenseStream account but have built your own online presence elsewhere, it’s easy to link to your LicenseStream account from an image you are hosting directly on your own website. All you have to do is modify the html code below by replacing the image ID after id= with your own image ID from your html code:

<a href="http://www.licensestream.com/LicenseStream2/Shared/Dispatcher.aspx?id=2688b5bc-dfe0-418a-9c8e-ab0710525730">License this image</a>

Example of a linkback from another website:

http://www.uschigerschner.com/index.html

liveBooks users please note: Most liveBooks sites are created using Flash. As a result, you will not be able to link back to specific content in your LicenseStream account using the html code. Instead, you can simply add a link to your LicenseStream store from your liveBooks site.

As always, please feel free to contact support@licensestream.com with any questions or feedback.