SEO and Marketing

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]


There is still a lot of talk all over the Internet about search engines, in particular Google giving priority to Gov and Edu sites. So does Google treat Edu/Gov sites any differently? No it does not. So why do some webmasters swear that they can achieve better result by acquiring backlinks from such domains? Edu and Gov domain websites tend to be established sites anyway. Also they usually get backlinks from other authority websites. Think of it this way. If there was a domain extension .pr10 especially for websites with page rank of 10, backlinks from such sites would help immensely. Not because of .pr10 domain name extension but because of the actual quality of the website with such extension. So i guess to sum this up… Yes, some Edu and Gov websites can indeed provide you with a strong backlink but it has nothing to do with the domain name extension. However you are better off spending your time finding backlinks from quality/related sites rather than concentrating on sites with a certain domain name extension.

Oh and here is a video of Matt Cutts saying… click (Minute 4 onwards)