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What To Do With Google Image Traffic

Discussion in 'Google' started by politician, May 27, 2008.

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    One of my pages is bringing in 5 uniques a minute for google image search (it ranks at the top for one of the most popular search words). It's a general search term. Is there anything to do with this kind of traffic?
     
    politician, May 27, 2008 IP
  2. ckgni

    ckgni Active Member

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    Although it will not give you as much traffic as Web search, you must still be happy with it. Try putting good earning ads and links to other sections of your sites in these pages.

    For example, add a "See also" box with links to other interesting pages on your site. It will help your visitors find more useful content on it and spend more time on the site and also the spiders to crawl your site better.
     
    ckgni, May 27, 2008 IP
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    erikko Well-Known Member

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    #3
    enjoy your traffic coming from image search results because they still do good
     
    erikko, May 27, 2008 IP
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    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    What To Do With Google Traffic ? is this a hard question !!!
    simply gather visitors info / try to sale them some thing :)
    no matter if they are coming from web / images or even groups it's after all a unique visitors visiting your website... so enjoy it and try to benefit a little bit :D
     
    IEmailer.com, May 27, 2008 IP
  5. politician

    politician Peon

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    But it's not the same.

    Web visitors are coming to view your text and read your site, image visitors are simply coming to see almost random pictures and tend to ignore any and all content and leave quickly. I have adsense plastered on the site, but it's getting a 0.60% CTR because the traffic is so weak.

    There has to be something useful to do with this traffic, even if it is weak, other than to make a few quarters from adsense.
     
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    MindBlogger Peon

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    #6
    Usually, Image Search traffic comes to see the full sized image and get the hell out of there. IMHO, I don't see many things that you can do with Image Search traffic, unless yours is a photography site or something. But that's my opinion, I could be wrong.

    Cheers!
     
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    WishBone Peon

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    That's good question, I want to know better answer too. Now all I think is just adding your url at the image could possibly help. ;)

    Also study when the user click the image and take to your site, try to think something to capture browsers as they see a part of your site.
     
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    You probably need to implement hotlink protection, or people will steal your bandwidth in order to show your images on other sites. That's what I had to do.
     
    billybw, May 28, 2008 IP
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    Most people use impression ads for image traffic.

    There's a way to have your site open when they click on the Google image, but I don't know how to do it.
     
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    scutari Peon

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    I think people are interested on pics rather on content, better enable hotlinking to avoid bandwidth stealing.
     
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    effektz Active Member

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    I've seen scripts that, when a referral comes from images.google.com, it automatically redirects the user to the full webpage (i.e. automatically removing the google iframe on top). I've never used one myself but I see them often while I'm doing google image searches. This might at least make the visitors take a second look at your website instead of just looking at the picture.
     
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    zexy Guest

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    To be honest such a traffic is pretty much useless.
    The visitors will do nothing but save the image and leave your site.
    Some kind of redirect is not a bad idea, I like it :)
     
    zexy, May 28, 2008 IP
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    C.Whyte Peon

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    Yup, impression ads FOR SURE! I had an image ranked #1 for a dangerously high searched keyword... made over $10 a day on the single page... it was AWESOME!!!

    Be sure to enjoy it while it lasts... on the last major image engine update, I'm now on page 3 and barely get any clicks :(
     
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    Image traffic is as good as any other form of traffic except for there is an extra frame at the top.
     
    uzair21, May 28, 2008 IP
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    I like the suggestion to that you would keep them on your site longer by adding relevant links. There are always ways to monetize traffic if you have enough of it.
     
    MegaPickles, Jun 9, 2008 IP
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    it is good traffic for me. i got a lot of image traffic :)
     
    tonyinabox, Jun 9, 2008 IP
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    #17
    I second with that

    image traffic is just to EAT your bandwidth....

    brings in literally nothing

    I have a image which brings in around 100 visits daily...but that is just to see the full size image..

    although it might bring in few backlinks when people HOT LINK to your image in your database
     
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    m0g Peon

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    #18
    Well, I was having the same issue, a lot of image.google.com traffic, but no "real" visitors.
    But then i've coded a simple solution using javascript and *kaboom*, my vistors are back.

    All you have to do is to put this code inside a SCRIPT html tag below you HEAD tag:

    if (top.location != self.location) top.location = self.location;

    And everytime a user clicks on a image from images.google.com it will remove that stupid IFRAME and show the webpage were that pic is.

    I love google, but the fact that they put our websites in a iframe simple sucks.
    they don't put normal search in Iframe right ? So why putting the images ? It just sucks.

    Anyways, I've solved my problem with that little code.

    You can test my solution by searching "boysoncandy" in images.google.com, and click on some of the pictures.
     
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    tonyinabox Peon

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    same solution hehe :D
     
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    nice solution, I have a bit of image traffic but don't know what to do with it.
     
    redz, Jun 9, 2008 IP