traffic secret

I found this article on how to get free website traffic...

 

Yes google image searches can bring traffic, it can also be a huge bandwidth eater if those people are just after your images ... which is most of the time I've found.

 

yeah your right...

 

The bandwidth problem can be ongoing if you aren't protected against hotlinking - if for example, somebody uses one of your images (directly from your server) as part of their website, or as a forum avatar, etc.

 

Totally useless. I have seen some traffic from images on my site and none stay longer than 5 sec. So, while you get numbers, it means nothing because it doesn't translate into a user or a reader or adsense money.

So, it's rather a waste of bandwidth.

Skinny

 

I suppose it would be different if you were trying to monetise an image gallery - in that case it would make sense to apply meaningful names to your images, and make good use of the alt-text attribute. If you don't really want traffic from specific image searches though, there would be a case to be made for doing the opposite, and applying cryptic names to your site images.

 

It's true that you can get traffic from images but the traffic is worthless - I repeat, worthless. Most likely, they found your images through Google's image search and never actually visited your home page - or clicked on your ads. On the surface, it sounds like a great concept but, practically, it's not worth the time you spend on it.

 

I accept but I get regular traffic from this link:
images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://know-heart-diseases.com/New%2520Bitmap%2520Image.gif&imgrefurl=http://know-heart-diseases.com/&h=384&w=5

what does it mean?

Aditya

 

ya, if you can avoid hotlinking its a decent way to get traffic, but not really as good as just having good content

you can use systems like the one tripod(i think thats one of the sites) uses to display just a logo when people try to hotlink

 

I did an experiment last year with two well known beautiful woman and my traffic boosted high up... but like it was already said it was not quality traffic. The revenue increase was not as good as I expected.

My conclusion was: "Beautifull woman can bring you trafic but will not bring you more money!"

All of this was happening on my blog which niche is not near the topic I was talking about.

 

The traffic may have little value but there is some value in any extra traffic as it would help out on things like Alexa traffic rating and related pages links. If someone visits your site from an image search it still counts as traffic and can play into Alexa's related links which would lead to more free traffic.

 

So name the picture with relevent keyworks, will help to drive some traffic.

 

I've read the same article in Allan Gardayne eBook:

"77 ways to get traffic" I don't remember the name exactly.

you can get it at http://www.Associateprograms.com

 

I have a few sites that do wonderful for getting traffic due to images and the bandwidth does not really concern me. My conversion rates tend to be a lower percentage on these sites but that is because of the higher "unqualified" traffic... over all however I am still getting a little extra because even though the image traffic has very low conversions, hey still do occassionally convert (less then 0.1%) which sucks except it is FREE traffic. If I paid for that I would be upset.. but all i did was name the images with the keywords.

I use hover ads on these pages also... that way they still see my ad and hopefully i can get thier email address

 

If people are coming specifically for the images they aren't coming for the content though.

 

Alexa???? value ????

You are kidding correct???

 

I believe this topic is not useless at all.

You can rename your images and set a mod rewrite to prevent bandwith theft, redirecting people to your index page or if you are selling a great product, to such page.

Perhaps a custom page saying something like "so you want images?... purchase XXX software and create your own, blah, blah, blah"

 

My day job is a resource for niche market articles and tutorials. I converted a specific block of articles with images and noticed a bump in traffic. True, the traffic was huge, but better than nothing.