Google Image Search is bringing highest traffic!

On checking my latest traffic stats, I found that the largest amount traffic arrived via Google image search, outranking Google, Yahoo and MSN text searches.

Am thinking of how to develop a traffic strategy based on this...

 

First of all if you OWN the rights to these images put invisible watermarks in them. This means on your site they work but if someone tries to rip them they get what they are asking for

I suggest creating galleries of images with comments about the place. Attractions near it etc etc. Then have an affiliate link to rent a place to stay, plane tickets to that place or whatever. Just an idea. You might be surprised how well image traffic can convert if done correctly. Whatever you do try and keep your images original.

 

Hey, that's cool! I think you're the first person I've ever met who gets any traffic that way!

 

Lucky you... I hope you can keep this up and convert you traffic into some cash.

 

Last year I was ranked on #1 page for images.google.com for several popular keywords. And that brings several hundreds of uniques for day.
But it's very difficult to get well ranked, and even more difficult to mantain that ranking.
I think google is checking the most clicked images to make rankings (you can see that are not using direct links). And fresh new pictures are more clicked than old known pictures.

 

Hi Visio, Many thanks for the specific and actionable suggestions that you have made.

All the images are my own; however, I don't know how to watermark the pics and write code to give rippers-off what they deserve, as yet. Instead, my strategy had been to display only the thumbnails of the, which do not have the kind of quality that the original pics have.

The business idea you have suggested is eminenty sensible. However, I notice now that travel and tourism is an intensely competitive field, and Kerala tourism itself, on which I was planning to focus, even more spectacularly served.

I do like the kind of specific suggestions that you have given. Thank you once more.

 

I'm seeing same stats on our logs. We received huge traffic on google images. But not really sure if it will convert into quality traffic.

 

Yes it is competitive but you are already ranking for some images. Just work upto the main ones. It will take time but is worth it. PM me and I will try and find you a free tool to watermark your images. Photoshop has one but that costs $700. you could try http://www.digimarc.com/

 

The only hits to my blog are from Google images. It seems a trick is to make sure the images are of a popular topic and that the image name is a popular search term. For example: a pic of Miss USA is missusa.jpg

 

i dont get traffic from image search but i did not get success about image search

 

Now how do you convert the traffic into doing something is what I want to know. I have a ton of polls on my site that are starting to get SE traffic, the polls with images especially. Problem is, only a small percentage actually vote on the polls. Any suggestiosn to get them looking at the site besides pic in google frame?

 

image traffic comes from ppl loving THAT one type of image you had in google image search
hence ppl expect MORE similar images on your site as well as image related content

example butterfly pics
people may love butterfly ecards, butterfly wallpapers and a story on how to attract butterflies in their own garden or a story about butterfly life from egg to butterfly ...
same for all other images

i make thousands of photos and group them by topic and add useful content ... and get better traffic and more ppl clicking on more pages

and because my pics converted into xx'xxxx adsense $ /yr I also invested xxxx $ in top edge lenses ( carl zeiss ) and top DSLR camera ( alpha A100 ) months ago to do even better in the future

ppl need to LOVE the pics you have - WOW pics that touch their heart and soul

 

Thanks hans, great advice!

 

wow i didn't think that it would really work. Ill have to try it sometime.

 

Around 70% of my traffic/travel/ is from images. I've even considered making a site mainly for my pictures...and I'll when have some time. However, I am not that sure much of the image-traffic converts into sales or clicks.

 

I think you could add some javascript to detect and break out of frames on the page that contains the image, so that the visitor would see the entire page as you intended. I'm pretty sure I have come across image results where the containing page does this.

 

Its the same for me. 70% comes from Google Images.

 

Ya, exactly from google... like 60 from these 70%.

 

which user comes on your website through image search, it means they want to search image and they want to get specific image. If he comes on your website on your website through image search then they will not useful for increase your website revenue

 

disagree as a result of extended photo publishing experience:

approx 50% of my xxxx$/m ( still a xxxx$/m amount ) comes from image visitors.
after downloading some 10'000 pics a day - it clearly appears that many find additional offers of pics in adsense - hence they click to find and SUBSTANTIALLY contribute to my overall site revenue.
almost all relevant ads appearing in image pages are directly related to image topics