How to give a face to your entities? Earn SEO profit with making Wikimedia Commons to your media hosting!

We already know, how to become an entity - create a Freebase topic. But this is a common issue that add image to Freebase topic is no longer possible. Our goals regarding semantic SEO and our images are however:

• the ability to provide semantic informations about our images,
• a possibility to share images with belonging semantic informations
• embedding of semantically described images into web documents as images utilizing ImageObject class from Schema.org and, last but not least,
• to host these images with belonging semantic informations on an authoritative source.

All these tasks can be accomplished using Wikimedia Commons, a free media repository of the Wikimedia Foundation. I divide this article about using of Wikimedia Commons into 2 sections:

• How to upload to Wikimedia Commons (things like register, login, create user page, select and/or find out matching license, upload and describe image or other media file)
• How to cite Wikimedia Commons (using on websites, embedding into semantic markup)

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