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Getting hits via Google Images - does it work?

Discussion in 'Google' started by misohoni, Jun 4, 2004.

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    Just wondering if anyone is labelling their images a certain way so they can be found on Google images...and does it work?

    Surely this is another way of getting hits?
     
    misohoni, Jun 4, 2004 IP
  2. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    I looked into that and read an article on it somewhere but couldn't find any concensus on how to optimize for it. Seems pretty random to me. And when I am looking for pictures my self I am rarely interested in the site itself so I doubt the value of traffic searching for images.
     
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  3. mxlabs

    mxlabs Peon

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    the quality of image leech traffic is questionable... I wouldn't want visitors to come to my sites just to copy an image off it.
     
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  4. misohoni

    misohoni Notable Member

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    But from my experience, I use Google images like I would when I go to Ebay to look at auctions. The graphics show a bit more detail, therefore I'm more likely to go to that site...
     
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    North Carolina SEO Well-Known Member

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    I received a similar article from WebProNews Insider Report (http://www.WebProNews.com) on Friday, May 14, 2004 called Ranking First In Google And Yahoo Image Search.

    It seemed a bit interesting but, I agree with mxlabs comment about not wanting visitors just to come take my graphics. IMHO.
     
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  6. Help Desk

    Help Desk Well-Known Member

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    It seems like the name of the file is the majority of what Google looks at.
     
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  7. misohoni

    misohoni Notable Member

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    So google would say match it to the url/directory/text on page name also?

    I wouldn't want leechers also, but since it's an option available to Google users - thought it could be implemented in gaining greater hits?
     
    misohoni, Jun 4, 2004 IP
  8. dkalweit

    dkalweit Well-Known Member

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    I have many hits from images.google.com. Then people take the URL, and paste the image URL into a forum post or something. This traffic is useless to me-- it just burns my bandwidth without any true page views(no one knows my site even exists!). I put a watermark on the main content images, but they're very hard to read in most forum postings that shrink them down... :( I wish there was some way I could get a popunder or SOMETHING to capture some of this traffic, but I can't find any technical means... :( I could create an image server of sorts to prevent people from linking to my images without hitting an actual page first, but it's not directly costing me any $$$ yet...


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    Derek
     
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  9. disgust

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    we have hotlinking protection on with a rewrite engine.. so I'm guessing that's why we don't get paid much attention to by google images
     
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  10. mopacfan

    mopacfan Peon

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    You mean your server determines if the image request is part of a legitimate page download before allowing the image to be served? That's pretty neat. How is that accomplished?
     
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  11. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    Here's an example for Apache's site:

     
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  12. misohoni

    misohoni Notable Member

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    No I don't think it's that fancy...

    What I mean is that sure - yes some people can hotlink to your images on the Image Search in Google. But don't you think the Image Search is another form of promoting your site? When you click on an image, they take you to your site anyway.
     
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  13. ProductivePC

    ProductivePC Peon

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    Wouldn't it solve your problem simple to prevent Google from going into your images folder? Such as a robots.txt file that prevents the google imagebot from going into /images ??

    Or do you like your images in there..... I am sure you can write a script that says

    for (array($images=/image1.gif/image2.gif/etc/etc/etc)
    if (_SERVER['HTTP-REFERER'] != www.mywebsite.com)
    {
    then create a popunder...
    }

    Of course, the above script is not written properly, merely an outline or an idea of what you could do.

    This way when anyone leech an image from your website you could send them to your webpage.

    Just a thought....

    Hope it helps

    Wayne
     
    ProductivePC, Jun 6, 2004 IP