I'm working with http://allfreeimages.com project. I'm adding icon packs, buttons, etc. I'm watermarking images and adding them title for better SEO. Is it really possible to get trafic? Any experience?
Yes, I have a few sites (neither is purely image based) that get almost all their traffic from Google image search, we are talking 300-400 visits a day each.
@zodiakasxxx Yes you can certainly get traffic from Google image search, You can use ALT tags as @Iproperty mentioned. Name the images with potential keywords and also it should be relevant to the image. Example: If you have a image of "Trafalgar Square" in London name the image as "trafalgar-square-london.jpg" Include all the image URLs in your sitemap.xml and RSS feed. Google up to date image search: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/03/get-up-to-date-on-image-search.html Check the design & content guidelines section here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769 Let me know if that helped.
Give meaningful names to your image and the names must include the niche keyword. For example: Named it as SilverHondaCivic.jpg better than img22023.jpg, the keyword is Honda. Normally the computer show many alphabet name which you don’t change it at all. So make a habit before save any image double check the niche keyword Google image search.Also,, Create great alt text. In HTML, alt attribute always used to describe the content of the image file. It can help us to Google to identity the information related to the image which you have uploaded to your website. Remember to avoided add too long alt attribute descriptive.
Thank you for answers. I also want to ask you other question - javascript sliding menu. Can google normally index thoose links or should I use any other way to give Google all links?
Try Lynx browser, this gives you a good idea of how a bot sees your site. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
Yes you can get traffic by google image search. you should pick image name on keywords and use alt and title for these images so that when ever crawler will come it will get relevant traffic.......submit your image in image distribution site with your website name and urls.
Yes. One of my arcade site get a good traffic from images.google.com . Just use SEO to your images for fast indexing.
One more question - Is there any diference when adding a link to an image. I mean like wikipedia... Is there any diference between: 1. <a href="image.png" title="" ><img src="" title="" alt=""/></a> and 2. <img src="" title="" alt=""/> ?
Yes it the best SEO strategy but you must target your domain name to a specific niche and you need not to add image on your domain customize properly your image's title, alts and filenames
ever since i started implementing the alt image tag on images, i've been seeing more visitors coming from google image search.
The key to getting images ranked in Google images is the content that surrounds the image and the alt text. So if you want an image ranked for a certain keyword, then surround the image with content optimized for that keyword and include the keyword in the alt text.
The alt tag is important but also the name of the image. Make sure its "imagename.jpg". Doing just those 2 things has helped us get traffic for our e-commerce store through Google Images.
Yep, If you place images within your content and give them relevant titles you can get traffic from Google image search. The only bad thing is that image search visitors are looking for particular photo, not your services or products, so unless you are selling photographs it's not worth it.