The Google image update is actually running. 0 -> 12 images listed for me now. edit : wrong date sorry, it's 15th.
i just looked for my website into google image search... and saw that there were images indexed that were not before.
how is google image update benefitial?? does it really bring traffic? isnt it bad for your site cause people steal your pics
IMO Google image results are beneficial to the person searching and Google. Dont think webmasters get much from it. Google image search is the easiest way to leech and steal copyrighted images.
Some do, if your site is image-heavy. For instance, one of my site, which has a lot of images on it, just about doubled its traffic thanks to this recent update in Google Images. Now, whether these new visitors stop to check out the site (and hopefully click on an ad) is another matter. But even if they don't click, the benefits to the CPM campaigns are immediate.
I think it's benefit for webmaster too. Coz I check my log and realize people come to my site through google images
Image is just another entry point to your site, one pic lead to list of pics, which leads to text text leads further in your site and in the end you make money I like that because many topics has pictures as MUST so they really compliments the search; now we have 2 ways to rank well in google
when we look at our visitor logs, many visitors are coming by searching in google images. but how to check our site status in google images?
just wonder if I can turn this to something. Now seem like that visit only the image, not visit the page.
Actually, when Google calls your images, it shows your image as thumbnail at the top, but the page where the image resides in the bigger window underneath it, so yes, visitors DO see your page, but rather they stay or not I can't say. Here's the thing: if you have CPM ad banners in those pages, everytime Google sends you someone looking for an image, it counts as an impression. So yes, I think Google Image can be very beneficial.
about 2 images has been search through google for 2 weeks or so already. eat my bandwidth like 3 - 10 times it used to be. make amazing impressions lately. CTR just about 0.2% for adsense.
If it's not doing you any good you can remove the image, or change location, and Google Image won't pick it up until they update again, and that's going to be awhile. It always takes Google Image a while to update (anywhere from 4-5 months).
I think I will keep it like this. They eat bandwidth, but not hurt me right now. When they saw my website, they might interested to visit.
Something curiouse, while searching with the site:site.com command for some of my website, i can cleary see that google exported some old images! even old text on the anchors that i was used a few momths ago ! lol , google keeped me in mind for 6 months! lol