Google IMAGES traffic

I'm starting to get a lot of traffic from Google Images, how do I track this better?

Is there a way to break out of the google Images frames?

How do I take advantage of this?

 

you can block the image search on your G webmaster tools panel. you can also block your image folder with your robots.txt

 

I was hoping of somehow profiting from the traffic.

 

did you even read the message before you posted?

I'm interested in ways of doing this too although I don't think its allowed...

 

seo_ranter, what's not allowed? making money from it? or breaking from the google frames?

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be allowed, who's going to enforce it? ha ha

 

breaking the frame....I'm just skeptical to do it...If I see it being done first I'll be happy to follow

 

Ha ha, found some code and other stuff:

<script language=”JavaScript1.1″ type=”text/JavaScript”>
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);</script>

see: http://www.bluehatseo.com/check-mate-google-images/

 

thanks....I can honestly say I learned something legit on DP today....+ rep

 

Another post if anybody cares:

http://blindapeseo.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/optimizing-image-search-traffic/

 

thank you blueoceanwave for the links. That's exactly what I needed.

 

another thing, i just found out that if the image is hosted on Flickr, but it's show on your page with all of the right keywords, google images will show your site, but the bandwidth will be pulled from flickr. how nice.

 

Also if you want to save bandwidth, you can avoid hotlinking to your images modifying your .htaccess file.

for example adding this:

SetEnvIfNoCase Referer "yoursite.com" main_pic
<FilesMatch "^([^\.]+)\.jpg$">
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from env=main_pic
ErrorDocument 403 /pic/error403.gif
</FilesMatch>

 

I'm always leary of trying to do anything to trick google. Once enough people do this and google gets pissed who knows how they will deal with it.

If you have a site you're willing to take the risk (however small the risk may be) go for it, but I have pr6 and pr7 sites and it's just not worth the chance for me.

 

My experience with traffic from Google Images is that most of the visitors only want to see the image, and don't explore the rest of the site. But my site is non-commercial, so this may not apply to commercial sites.

 

Yes, same for me. Several weeks ago I was receiving 2,000 unique visitors/day from a picture ranked #4 for a popular keyword and the majority of those visitors don't explore any other page of my site.

 

I've had great luck with Google Images; they send me more traffic than Yahoo and MSN combined, and people like to click around my site once they find it. But I run a photography web site, so this is maybe a different story?