situation: Big amount of visitors come as a result of searching images (images.google.xx) most of them just get needed pic (save it|look on it|etc) and run away they don't explore site for other releases and pics it goes without saying that there are almost no ad clicks Is there any solution to hold visitors who came like that? Thanks
but that traffic cannot be treated as actual 'cause visitors actually don't visit site. they just click on the image in the google frame, open image and go away
It's happening on a few of my sites as well - in fact I'm just going to add a line to robots.txt saying "DONT CRAWL MY IMAGES DIRECTORIES!" because it's just a waste of bandwidth imo.
nice point, but: 1st - not everyone can access robot.txt (blogger user) 2nd - it will remove 99% of visitors... I think there should be a way not to load google frame or any other trick to bring visitors directly to site or at least catch their attention, to make them stay 'cause it is such a waste
There is a way to basically redirect them to your website when they click on the image, but I don't know how to do it. Google it and you should be able to find it. Image traffic does suck, but it's better than nothing for sure, and if it's niche or targeted it can actually convert.
If you are a blogger user, you don't have any problem with data transfer. Regarding the visitors, you can try to use ads that pay according to the number of visitors. Some of the visitors will open your website as well. You can test for sometime with CPM ads and then compare the results.
1. CPM ads should help 2. Add some thumbs of other pics that might be interesting for the users so they get more involved
Thanks for all of the advices, took it to consideration. it may be that the most descent solution is to make site as light/fast as possible, then theoretically if to place thumps on the top, they can catch an eye... from my own experience if I need a good pic and need to get it fast I won't wait site to load, I will just grab it fullsize from google frame and will go to the next search result. This "hit and run" habbit I got while was finding pics for my jpop blog and in this subject for some reason owners of different sites/blogs/myspace(hate it)/etc like to put MUSIC playing in the background. I am not going to describe what will happen when you encounter any music/video/noise on any of the sites... 8) that will never happen to mine
Well if it's 99% from image search than your visitors quality sucks, just pack your site with CPM ads and earn the money
it's good to have traffic from google image search. sometimes, rare occasions, they will visit your site when they see something they like, for an instant, this case, they would want more of "that thing they search pictures" so my suggestions, put more of than 1 pictures..
yea some sites do this, it will redirect them to the page of the image. I need to find something like that when I make my wallpaper site
hm, here is a wordpress plug-in which removes google frame, but I am on blogger ^^' anyway there is a hope still P.S. amazing, this thread has already been included to google index (it took 4 hours or less !)
Similar situation for me - one site has about 700 hits a day from image search, but about 15 for normal searches! Image search traffic can be turned into clicks - I've a CTR of 10% on one page where almost all the traffic comes from image searches. Ideas: 1. Jump out of the frame from google image search. 2. Use a really catching headline - the first thing a visitor will see. Grab their attention. 3. I'm you're not jumping out of frames, edit your actual images - seems to work for me - add a small written text ad onto the image with Photoshop or something similar along the lines of "amazing tips on **** can be found on ***.com" - you get my idea. Visitors might actually check out the site when they read it.
Better to use CPM ads They will pay you per 1000 visiters better than adsense i am using it on my humor blog i am getting better $$s that adsense
In my own experience traffic from Google images is not good. People don't care to visit the site, they just need the image.
actually that's why I am seeking for a solution to convert that traffic into a usefull webgate to site, not just to image