OK so I have a website where i posted a photo of a caribou (you know the animal) a while back and the photo was indexed in yahoo images. Now I get a ton of searches everyday for caribou. This normally would be great if the people actually visited the site, yet they only go to the image location, where I don't earn any revenue and they eat up my bandwidth. Any suggestions on how to monetize this or should I just remove the image all together (and perhaps replace it with something else?) I appreciate the responses, it's a totally bizarre situation. -Grant
No one has a single response to this after 80 views? If you yahoo image search "caribou" the very first image is my site, which people than just look at the image and than off they run. Using my bandwidth and contributing nothing or producing any revenue. Any remedies at all?
After looking at it further it looks, like yahoo images actually shows my whole page with a enlargement of the photos above. So it appears currently I may still be getting impressions, although for the bandwidth it uses it's not entirely maximizing revenue.
I do not want to saying this but...most of users (80% probably) do search images via major search engine just to use for their own and had no intention to visiting the website owned those images anyway. I would recommend you ignore those traffics and leave them as it were. You should go and concentrate to get organic ranking for targeted keywords instead.
just like Sxperm said when they search for a picture they only want it and not the site picture won't give you that much traffic
I would recommend you ignore those traffics and leave them as it were. You should go and concentrate to get organic ranking for targeted keywords instead.
yahoo image search is no different from its web search, it is also very basic and has nothing impressive about it. Google is still better comapred to yahoo. But for Image seraching i particularly prefer Bing as i think its the best for searching image on the web, its better than both Goolge and Yahoo.