How do you take advantage of Google Image Search

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by rotren, Oct 2, 2008.

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    One page on my website gets a lot of traffic from images.google.com - I have 2 photos of a little dog that come up high up there. My site isn't about dogs though. Do you have any suggestions on how to take advantage of these dog searches?

    I guess if I had time, I could create a new dog website and have a big fat link to it, but I don't have time for doing that.

    I put up a big Adsense ad on the page in question to see if I would get many clicks, but the CTR is low.
     
    rotren, Oct 2, 2008 IP
  2. bobertcole

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    One simple way would be to do some affiliate banners for dogs. For example, calendars.com. Get some dog affiliate ideas from affiliate guys and put a banner or a text link next to your picts.
     
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    vansterdam Notable Member

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    Google image traffic is very low quality traffic. Unless the images directly relate to your website theme/niche, you shouldn't waste time going after that traffic. These people are all just browsing and usually have no intention of purchasing anything. 99% of them will just go back to the image search to view more images of dogs or whatever they are searching for.
     
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    You can get a lot of traffic by having your image anchor text and file name relating to what keyword you want to rank for.
     
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    I have to agree with vansterdam, these people are mainly browsers and not likely to purchase anything. Perhaps the best way is strategic adsense placement. It might be hit or miss.
     
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