SEO for Google images
A few years ago I used to run two popular 3gp video blogs. These two blogs used to have around the same number of backlinks in various search engines. It was me in charge of seo so I just did pretty much the same thing for both. What really surprised me a few months later is that one of
the blogs started to receive traffic from Google images. Over 30,000 monthly unique visitors to be precise. Why? Because that particular blog had a different format. I have tested the same layout a number of times and it always worked a treat. Shall i give it a try here on my blog? (My keyword will be seo) First of all I need an image called seo.jpg. I then upload it to any folder I want. I then stick this images in my blog post so that it is nicely surrounded by text with a decent keyword density and change the alt tag to seo. That’s it! I should be ranking quite well within a month or two.
Other tricks that can help:
1) Linking back to your image with appropriate anchor. For example seo (Not really needed)
2) Opt-in for enhanced Google image search.
When you start receiving traffic from Google images you might want to redirect it to your landing page. You can use something like this in your htaccess:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} ^http://images\.google\.com/imgres
RewriteRule ^Folder/upload/[^.]+\.jpg$ http://yoursite.com/Folder/page.cgi [R=301,L]
February 11th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
i have searched for the keyword quite several pages i cant find seo in the images any where which redirects to your website i think it will take some more time.
February 11th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
If you have a look at the date you will notice that this post has been posted 4 days ago. This is because I had to scrape it from Google’s cache after problems with the data center I was hosting on and losing my whole database. 4 days is really not enough for your images to get indexed and ranked. Especially after the image directory has been changed.
Original post which has been destroyed the other day was a few months old and had good traffic coming to it from Google images.
Good effort trying to prove me wrong though.
February 26th, 2009 at 12:55 am
Ha, I was going to comment on that myself. So this works with blogs, how about an image section on a VBulletin forum?
June 13th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Hello Ilia,
I’m seeking someone to optimize “Hawaii Map” for my images.
What is your fee and what are your comments about length of time
for results.
Thanks, Steve
July 27th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Thanks Illa
September 4th, 2009 at 2:11 am
alt tags can help you getting index your images in google image search
September 26th, 2009 at 7:06 am
hmm.. I am gonna try this one!
Thanks illa.. you’re the man!
December 4th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Thanks for this. I read about it somewere but nobody mentioned changing the alt tag. Thanks man
August 9th, 2010 at 2:12 am
Your idea is good. Using image of google to land the user to your website and gain traffic. That is unfair to google.
January 27th, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Thanks for the insight! I think that Google Places shows the direction that Google intends to head in the future. I found another article on Newswire.Net about local SEO that really helped.
March 13th, 2011 at 9:44 am
this is such a good strategy for you to improve your site. thanks for the post.