Does anyone know how images are ranked on images.google.com? I'm wonder if they are ranked on the PR of the site the image is on or how exactly Google ranks each image to show up in the results?
Personally, I think this is probably one of the areas where content is really king in Yahoo and not so heavily weighted on IBL and other off-page factors. For example, a search of Google Images for Olsens Bikini will bring up four images (you may have to turn off safe search if you haven't already) from my site - pay close attention to the file names. Also, the alt-text, id and surrounding text can have an effect too I think, but I've no real basis for this, just theory.
I am not very sure either but i think it depends on Alt, file name and Content around the image (Density).
What kills me is that I'm in the sandbox, but most of my free google traffic comes from images. I have some data center pictures that seem to be bringing me the traffic.
I don't rank very well in Google Search, but Google Images is always one of my largest referrers - having over 3300 images cached there doesn't hurt, hoping they'll update and I'll have even more soon
As far as I can tell from my experience you get the best result if you have a list of images (I always have 5 pics/page) and you put the text that you want your image to be found for right after the image and put an alt for the image with the same text and an additional word (e.g. "picture").
I get almost as much traffic from G images as from G search results but I too have no idea how it is ranked. I have found though that it doesn't seem to update very often, sometimes months before more of my pictures are added even though G crawls my site daily
google images is good for me, but I am not in the first few pages. It seems that the searchers of images are quite willing to look very deep.
very interesting. Surrounding text is important. I have had visitors to my site for a pic of the Barcelona player Eto'o and I have no picture of him anywhere at all. I simply mentioned his name on my blog and had a picture of someone else around it. His name is not mentioned in the alt tags.
I am in the same situation with tork for some sites I own. It's idiotic how images aren't sandboxed - if my site's good enough for Google to eat my bandwidth and send me low performing visitors, then it's definitely good enough to rank for its businness name!
Some pages get more visits from images than searches... chances are, the search was related to the image and website content and may lead to a sale if the visitor browse the site.
my site uses random numbers for the names of its images, and I receive about 1200 hits a month from google images.
For anyone interesting in doing a science experiment, I currently have the #1 spot (and #7) for a google image search for "christmas" ... I'd be curious what factors made this happen. While I have a lot of this type of themed stuff, I was kinda surprised it ranked as high as it did and didn't even know until someone told me a little while back.
hi i had make one small store in froogle its effect to google image search my all product image came in google image search so try to make froogle store and take froogle adv as wall as image search thanks shailesh
The minute I put heading, title, and meta for the same keyword + name of the image, I got the first position... This is probably a good place to start...
I believe that people searching for pictures are not interested in my site content. Let's put it this way: If you wish to know something about "Britney Spears" or "nuclear explosions" you search for text not graphics. If you search for graphics you get thousands of links that you click, you see, you stole (if you like what you see), and then you go away for the next. The worse consequence is that they use large amounts of your bandwidth. That's why I killed hot linking. Nevertheless my traffic still goes up at the normal rate. On the other side, I'm sure Google penalized my site for my action against his interest and downgraded my site from pr5 to pr4 remaining in that position despite of the fact that after 6 years, my site contains more than 6000 titles and more than 15000 html, pics and sound archives. By the way, I do not link sites and never asked for a link to my site, except DMOZ.
Nearly all of my traffic is from google images, proberly around 3500-4000 unique visitors a day, and I too really don't have any idea how it works. Just happy to be on the first page Oh yes, I don't allow hotlinking (except from search engines) - so links can't mean much. Also, title is 99% of the time not what is on the image. Though the filename and alt text describes it.