attracting traffic through posting images online

[jonisolis]

Attracting traffic through posting images online at a photo sharing community.

Hi, I was just wondering if it is better to post images on your website or on one of the photo sharing communities like Flickr with links back to web site. Or both? Any ideas on this?

I have a website I am maintaining for a horse business -- training, boarding, tack sales. Would they receive more traffic back to their site if I posted their photos on Flickr or some other similar site?

Thanks for any input on this subject.

[Dinghus]

Anything that gets the URL on other sites is good (there are exceptions to that of course). Like posting on boards like this with links to your site in the sig.

Something a lot of SEOs are missing is the Google picture search feature. I have a customer who has a picture of a volcano on his website. He gets about 5% of his hits now from people searching for volcanoes. His site has nothing to do with volcanoes, so the traffic is not the greatest quality, but it is something to consider in a situation like yours. People searching for horses will find your horse pictures on your site.

I am not sure how to get the pictures ranked higher in Google tho.

[timmathews.com]

A good idea is to "water mark" your images with your domain name, so people see the pics, they will also see your domain, and hopefully come into yoru site.

[kevan]

Hi,
I seem to have problems getting pictures into google images within a reasonable time frame. I was once told by a google representative that they have to visit each image manually before adding to the site, which I am a little surprised, and probably not true.
What are the best ways of getting images recognised? I always add a short description under a picture, with this repeated as the 'alt text', is there anything else I should do to aid in this? Plus, I run google sitemaps every day on a couple of my sites.
Thanks
kevan

[ddwebguru]

Hi all i find a url - may help all
http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/optimi...imisation.html

[wgoodman]

Having link backs to your images can only help your positioning.

Wayne Goodman, Web Site Design, Search Engine Marketing

New Jersey Mortgage

[ronchalice]

About 20% of my traffic to my primary site comes from Google picture search. Checking the referals in my logs I'm finding that some of my pictures are being either linked or "borrowed" and copied to blogs around the world. I find my guitars on rock band forums all the time.

As noted earlier, the alt text and descriptions help the pics to pop up in the google engine quite well.

One of my roll band sites, Boomersaurus.com, is ranking higher than the Rolling Stones in several categories, a lot of it due to picture captioning.

For those of you who are much, much younger than I am, the Rolling Stones were, and still are... The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in the World.. ;-)

[jesterx]

here is an intresting fact. One bloke here in australia makes about $1000 a week because people find his images on 'google images' and his website link shows. When they click the link it take them to his home page where he sells an assortment of b'day card, christmas card, wedding cards etc...etc...etc

im not sure how but i think he uses the 'alt' tab on images with specail keywords....when i asked he wouldnt reveal how he does this....he he LOL figures.

i think there is also a tool that shows what people are searching for in the google image database...i.e. the most popular keywords to the least popular keywords....now that would be a powerhouse of information to get your hands on that ey?

[jonisolis]

Hey, this looks new. I don't remember seeing this before.


Welcome to Google Image Labeler, a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.
http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/