Unwanted traffic from images.google.com

Discussion in 'Traffic Analysis' started by harsh789, Apr 9, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    Since last few days am getting some unwanted traffic from referrer images.google.com. This is targeting set of url. It seems like those urls are registered on some automatic system and its generating unwanted page views.

    Can anyone suggest something on this issue.

    Thanks.
     
    harsh789, Apr 9, 2007 IP
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    eSpenders.com Peon

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    unwanted? why? are they hotlinking your images?
    i would luv the traffic you can send em to me? lol :D
     
    eSpenders.com, Apr 9, 2007 IP
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    troyan_comu Well-Known Member

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    I will also take your traffic is it for a more mature audience I have some site like that.:)
     
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    harsh789 Member

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    No, not hotlinking.

    Its referring my urls using images.google.com as referrer. And it is targeting set of 10-15 urls. Moreover it is from different locations.
     
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    Image search can use tranfser up and not get anyone really looking at site. It goes both ways nice to have traffic but if traffic does not bother with site just looks at pictures and loads site to do it it is a waist of transfer.

    You can also try taking any names in images out see if google drops image when name is gone.
     
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    I just remembered about the so called image trick someone posted on this forum. They copy your image from google and post it on thier site to get traffic. So every time thier page loads your image is loaded on your site.

    Change name of images or drop names. If the image is not in google they will drop it.
     
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    john269 Notable Member

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    I don't get it. All the images shown on google is hosted on their servers. If someone wants to click on the image then it will open your webpage in an iframe with the image on. If you get more than 1 page view on average per visit then that will mean the visitor as clicked of the landing page and visited other pages on your site.
     
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    you can block it from google webmaster tools and blocking with robots.txt is an option too
     
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