Google Images: Another source for free traffic

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Posted in » Google, SEO & Promotion - by Ades on April 17th, 2007

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After my post about ABC’s popular show Lost back in December 2005. I started to notice more and more traffic to my blog coming from Google Images. Here is the post, it was about the animal trainer hand that was seen in the Episode 9, Season 2 (which was not supposed to be seen). At the moment, my screenshot image comes up second in the Google Image results when someone searches for keyword “Lost”.

Currently according to MyBlogLog stats (I should get a better stats service, any ideas?) I am getting around 300 hits a day from Google Images. I have no idea how the Google rates the images, there must be thousands of Lost related images, pictures, posters, screenshots…etc

So how come my image is second in the results? I do not have the answer for that, but I do have some guesses (tips), here are they:

  • Be the first to blog about it (whatever it is), because when you are the first your post becomes the source of reference.
  • Blog about something different, that the current blogosphere is NOT blogging about, that way you can stand out!
  • Name the images that you upload to your post with a descriptive names, for example my image name was lost.jpg

Update (August 2007) My image no longer ranks No.1 on Google Images. I had my share of traffic while it was up there.


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5 Responses to “Google Images: Another source for free traffic”

  1. By Tottie on Jul 30, 2007

    I gather you can’t submit to google images - they just find them. Is that right?

  2. By Ethan Kumaraperu on Aug 12, 2007

    Is ther any way to submit your images on other image search sites besides Google?

  3. By Rus on Sep 7, 2007

    Ades, try http://www.statcounter.com for your webstats, it is free and give you plenty detail :)

  4. By Acne-care on Dec 9, 2007

    Cool nice idea :). i never tought that google images can be a source of traffic

  5. By War Gold on Jan 24, 2008

    You can get a whole host of similar ideas (though mainly for building links, which in turn drives traffic) at http://www.zanypixel.com/blog/untapped-link-building-strategies/

    This list looks particularly at creative and extrovert methods. Take a look, see how you can put it to good use.

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