Advertisers will look anywhere to reach consumers these days. Your personal photos are now as good a place as any.

"Visual endorsement engine" Udorse allows users to link areas of their existing online photo collections directly to the sites of brands which might be featured in them.

They're not the first to come up with the concept of linking to sites from Flickr images. Udorse does however utilize an affiliate network approach that charges brands while letting users earn a fee for all links that get hits.

While it's possible for any service like this to be exploited, the company says click-fraud has also been taken into consideration. The purpose here is to take advantage of the countless product shots that invariably end up in peoples' images.

As with any attempt to monetize social profiles however, the door is still left open for sites like this to have paid reviewers upload shots containing products they don't use.