How to milk google images for all its worth ?

Im getting around 2000 uniques a day from google images alone , however im only earning around $2 a day from adsense from this particular site, the traffic is getting bigger and bigger every day. How can i really take advantage of this traffic from google ?

I would imagine most people just click on the google image then click "view full size image" like i do when i search on google images , therefore never actually seeing my site just the image.

Any tips and staff people can come up with would be great.

thanks

Would like to make something back out of it since its raping my bandwidth at the moment.

 

That is hard traffic to convert. I would spend more time developing the text content on the site.

 

There is a Javascript you can add to your pages so it breaks out of the frame and they land on your full page. I have used it and my revenue went up quite a bit.

 

An idea: pop up ads

 

you need to put sales oriented content to used of traffic

 

Even if you break the frame and they see the whole page it still isn't traffic that is worth much. Pop up ads is a good idea like crumblepie said.

 

The problem with popups is that a lot of browsers are using pop up blockers. I think the best way is to disable direct access to the file, so that users could not just click on "Show full size" - they need to look at the page. (I don't know how to do that though. I am not even sure if that is possible without JavaScript.)

 

No, just as Islesv said with pop-up blockers it's not a real good option. I get about 100k image searches per month and i've tried all sorts of combination's to monetize the traffic.

So far 2 Adsense blocks above the fold, and a small pay per impression banner down the footer is the best balance between revenue and annoying visitors with too much ads.

 

Pop up ads might work since some people use old browsers.

 

2000 unique visitors? or requests?
2000 visitors, 60,000 a month, just from image searches? you're kidding, surely.

 

Thanks for all the replys, everything mentioned i have thought of bud , i might stick adbright on their and see what happens

Yeah 2000 unique visitors , actually yesterday it jumped up again and now 2300 ish a day.

i thought it was just a faze because of some media coverage but its now lasted a month and growning even more everyday still so im assuming it could be here to stay for a while

 

this is exactly my answer

 

Would that still allow google to crawl the images ok though ?

Some thing else id like to do is :

at the moment ive switched on the hotlink protection in the cpanel so other sites cant use my bandwidth , i would like to switch that back on but have some kind of script that inserts a text link under the image, ive seen it done but not sure how to do it.

Basically it will give the site a good boost at the same time as giving othersites the chance to still hotlink our pictures.

 

You can always use a java script frame breaker, just Google it and once any one visit your website via a frame (usually Google Do so) your visitors will only see you website instead of the Google Frame with a link to View the full size of the Image

 

wp-themes, do you kindly tell me where can I find the java script frame breaker code? Many thank in advance.

 

I have the same issue on a Skin conditions and immune diseases site so I looked for methods to try and convert it. So I am using the script below

<script type="text/javascript">
if (top.location!= self.location) {
top.location = self.location.href
}
</script>

Code (markup):

It doesnt really make a difference if they want to only look at the image then thats all they are interested in.

 

Here you go dude - http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/break-out-of-frames-wordpress-plugin/

Tried it myself and works..

http://images.google.ie/images?q=fa...ent=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Then have a look for image from "Goalpost.tv" - it breaks out of the frame....

And to replace hotlink images with your own promotional image - http://altlab.com/htaccess_tutorial.html

Hope this helps..

 

Your site is "very" slow clicking through from Google images, i'd say people are just clicking "View Full Size" instead of waiting around and that doesn't break out of a frame and show your ads.

 

your figures have gotta be wrong. 60,000 unique visitors from google images alone for the month. Thats crazy for a start. Most google image users dont even click through onto the main site.
Anyway, lets be generous and summise google images is responsbile for 5% of your total traffic, that equates to 1,200,000 visits a month ! and your only getting £2 a day from your adsense campaign for that?

this doesnt add up at all.

 

?? what ever made you think that google images is 5% of over all traffic ? it would vary between niches, and that figure of 5% is so far off you wouldnt believe.

Thanks for all the replies so far , i actually found a wordpress plugin that redirects and visitors from google images directly to where the image page on my site is. Seems to be working a little better , revenue has gone up to $3.5 a day , although i have also changed the design of the site too to have a better selection of ads above the fold too so it could be that too.

I still think there is more to be had out of this though so ill keep playing with things