Traffic from Google Image

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by fep73, Jun 1, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    On a blog, every time I added an image, I made sure to define the ALT attribute with a few keywords. Now this blog receives almost 90% of its traffic from Google Image. I presume it is non human traffic.
    -How could I make sure ?
    -Anybody has that too ?

    Thanks.
     
    fep73, Jun 1, 2008 IP
  2. confusion

    confusion Guest

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    I have a blog as well and I once posted a picture of my car after I hit a deer on the blog. Now, the largest source of traffic on my blog is people searching for "deer car crash", for which I am on the first page. Not sure why, but people love to see my car banged up.

    I now have people trying to hotlink the pictures like mad. I have people asking to use my pictures in reports, documents, etc. I don't know why - the pictures aren't that great, and the car wasn't particularly bad.
     
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  3. dotnetsky

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    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /images/dogs.jpg


    To remove all the images on your site from the index, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:

    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /
     
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  4. forte

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    Even if it is, do you want them! folk searching for images only do so for A titerlation B to steel the image or C to look at a product since yours is a blog then C the one that could make you money is out unless you are doing revues for products

    just a thourght

    Barrie,
     
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  5. shotazi

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    I think it is good sourse of traffic, for example if you have famous womens wallpapers site and someone searched in google image "paris hilton" and he see good picture on you site he will view other page's of your site, so i think it is quality traffic sourse.
     
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    there are the exceptions but that site would come under "A titerlation" with a view for a sale but on the whole most sites don't benefit form folk looking for images useless you sell them like your example

    Barrie,
     
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    Anyway to get search engine traffic to your site is good. Image search is just another way.
     
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