My website http://www.freshtrend.com gets a decent amount of traffic from Google on a daily basis but virtually no traffic from Google Image Search. Every page in my site has a specific image on it and most have good alt and title tags but still no traffic from image searches. Can anyone offer any insight on what I'm doing wrong?
Are the graphics named with the keyword they rank for? For example, an image named 0121412.gif just with alt / title tags won't really show up against something like red_ferrari_car.gif with alt / title tags.
Maybe your site is not so reputable as your competitors. The things you have done are just onpage optimizations. You can read about the off page factors in some threads here. It will give you some idea.
A few tips: -- Use descriptive keywords for images -- Use hyphen to seperate keywords i.e. keyword1-keyword2.jpg -- Use alt image tag with keyword(s) -- Text close to the image should be related to keyword of image
Put your keywords in your alt tag and in your title tag, it may give a large impact to Search engines.
Well right now there is a post on my site about a Heated Cat Bed so the image code looks like: <img src="http://www.freshtrend.com/images/HeatedCatBed.jpg" id="right" alt="Heated Cat Bed" title="Heated Cat Bed" /> then after that there is a paragraph or two about the heated cat bed. I follow this style for every image on every page, but still no traffic. I understand the basics of optimizing images and I've done that but can't figure out why there's no traffic.
have you enabled enhanced image search in google sitemaps? ive had it running for a few weeks on my site although unsure if it has had any impact... but i guess every lil' helps?
It may be different for other sites but I've found that traffic from Google image search is basically useless. I get a high proportion of my traffic from Google image search but most just snag the pic they're looking for and move on without bothering to look at the rest of the content.
You must put an alt tag and your keywords in it. Eg. <img src="http://www.site.com/image.jpg" alt="keyword 1">
What i can recomend it is to use. www.zenphoto.org It is seofriendly, and works fine with our websites where images are valuable to search positions.
images on your site must optimized like the other parts of your site . the key points for the optimizing are using alt tag and name of the image