How do googlebot see it? They are based on alt tags? I really need to know about it because my website is with graphics so i can get a lot of visitors from it. Thanks in advance!
My guess would be alt tags, filenames, and anchor text on links to the image. I always be sure to use keyword-image-names and alt tags, I get 100k image referrals a month on one site.
Manually it can be really a huge work to change your existent links and image names By the way,what about user behaviour ? I mean when a visitor is coming for a image, does he browse your site ? does he click on the ads ?
The visitors that I've got via Google image came for the images only, and later I found out that many images were used in myspace profiles and other 'blogs'. So whenever somebody was checking a myspace profile, it was shown as a visitor to my site (but actually it was not). Sometimes I had some hundreds of visitors a day, just because of my images that were used in profiles. So I've editted the .htaccess and I've blocked the image bot of the search engines. I prefer to have clean stats.
The visitors that I've got via Google image came for the images only, and later I found out that many images were used in myspace profiles and other 'blogs'. So whenever somebody was checking a myspace profile, it was shown as a visitor to my site (but actually it was not). Sometimes I had some hundreds of visitors a day, just because of my images that were used in profiles. So I've editted the .htaccess and I've blocked the image bot of the search engines. I prefer to have clean stats.
I would suspect thats about to change with that new image tag game - I still havent figured out how to get money from it. Google Images brings me a bucket load of daily traffic but also a lot of myspace thiefs but hey there is noting better than having fun with thiefs such as resizing an image to 1200x1200
It really is amazing how many people still try to hotlink pics. It's so simple to upload it yourself (you can even do it with a free Blogger blog if you're a cheap bastard)