I am little ticked off by the image results that Google has decided to start including for the keyword that I have optimized my site for. Everytime I search the keyword, 3 small images that match the keyword are displayed above the results for the last 1-2 weeks. How long will they stay up there? Forever? I was ranked #10 on Google for quite a competitive keyword, and received approx 200 visitors per day from Google for it. Recently, I moved up to rank #6, although they started displaying images as well, so now instead of getting even more visitors I lost approx 100 per day! Is this happening to anybody else?
As it's not certain how much this will last , why don't you try to optimize a page with an image on that keyword? If you do that , focus on the image's name , alt & title tags , and especially on the text surrounding it , that should contain keywords related to what you want to rank for. Think of the benefits of having your image placed #1 .