Google Images Update

Google Images update has just happened today, and is in progress further.

I've been waiting 6 months for this.

Check it yourselves to see how you stand

 

No need to check the SERPS, 90% of the traffic to one of my sites disappeared.

I was hoping to double the revenue from that site from $1/day to $2/day.

Google Image searchers do not give good CTR.

 

Well.. Shit happens

 

Luckily my sites, overall, are kicking butt!

 

How exactly do you rank for google images, just get lots of links to jpg pics etc?

 

Interesting, I've never noticed it from a webmaster's point of view.

 

I recall reading that the filename of the image was a major factor in image ranking. Probably the equivalent of the title tag for webpages.

 

Does the alt tag have anything to do with an image ranking?

 

I would expect it to. I would also expect that the surrounding words on a webpage that inlined the image would have some effect.

 

With the way that google pays attention to links and their description it would not be surprising.

 

1. The name of the image. More than 3-4 words, are not accounted for, and cut out. Be relevant and specific.

2. The alt attribute. More than 3-4 words, do not apply. But it's very important to have it.

3. The text, that's found in the page containing the image.

4. Is the image linked ? this is still unknown to me, and if it helps or not.

I placed the above in order of importance.

 

ARGH! Looks like they're showing thumbnails from the images at the top of the normal SERPS now, too. So much for clean text-based interfaces.

How long before Google becomes a full blown "portal", complete with flash pop-unders?

 

They are just trying different aproaches i guess.

I don;t think it will ever be that way (Like msn or yahoo is)

 

yes.. as i use alt alt on images that contains links .. also that don't

 

i m not in good place expertu :S

 

What do you mean ?

 

Something I've done to position images on GG Image Search results is making an image thumbnails page, and then, naming the big version of the images using the target keyphrases, but intentionally letting spaces between every word of the keyphrase, and then using a number at the end:

For instance, if I want to position an image for the keyword “blue butterflies”, I make a thumbnail page for “Blue Butterflies Images” (linked from a good PR page), then put all the target images under a directory named /blue-butterflies/images/ and name every image using: “blue butterflies 1.gif”, “blue butterflies 2.gif”, “blue butterflies 3.gif”, etc.

Then, when a search is done for images of “blue butterflies”, GG Images shows the images as:

domain.com/…/images/blue%20butterflies%201.gif

or

domain.com/…/images /blue%20butterflies%202.gif

Note that every time a %20 is included, it is because the filename itself has a space as part of the name, and for some reason, GG Images likes this. It works also with jpgs.

Has anyone else used this?

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Well , i really never optimize more than one picture for the same keyword.

I use a different combination of keywords, for each and every picture.