Google images seo. Magic formula?
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 images called seo.gif. I then upload it to any folder I want (pictures/seo.gif in this case). 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 encahnced 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]
March 10th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Thanks, I have a food blog with alot of pictures and this could be really usefull to me.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
Redirecting visitors who come from searching from images to another page isn’t a smart idea. What will likely happen is the visitor will just be pissed off that he can’t find the photo, then leave. Or, using a redirection script from someone coming from Google images would result in a ban once the Google staff finds out about it (which would likely take a while since it would have to take someone reporting it).
If you are worried about the frames I recommend using a javascript frame breaking script instead. That way you are within your Google rights and you won’t get banned.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
Depends what you want to do really. Long term white hat site… Yes, you are right. Short term black hat? Then you don’t care much about pissing off your visitors as long as you get to stuff them with your cookies etc
March 11th, 2008 at 4:04 am
wow, that’s a nice idea.. I’ll try this on my next post.. I used to name my pictures with undescriptive (short cutted, if there’s such a term..) names.. I’ll do this and i’ll observe what will happen..
Thanks for the info..
March 11th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
This seems almost too easy to work for a competitive keyword like SEO but I’ll just wait and see what kind of results you get with this.
March 11th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
@ Joliber Mapiles
Yea, its a good idea to name your images what they actually show rather than footer.gif or 285462384.gif
@ ClubNikiV
Seo is indeed a very competitive keyword. This is exactly why i picked it. But yet again, if you have a look at the first result for SEO image you will find it on, what seems like an abandoned PR3 website.