Comments on: How to Optimize Images for Google Image Search

By: izle

izle — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:23:38 +0000

My wife’s cooking blog is image heavy, (more than 10% of her traffic consistently comes from image search) she takes pictures of most of the dishes she mentions

By: ban

ban — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:57:01 +0000

I found one Image search this search will display details about all the keywords. And it has about millions of image searches.
This search will helps how to optimise the images in our blogs in order to increase the rank in google search engine.

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By: web designer

web designer — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:16:12 +0000

I place my website images names as keywords or keyphrases based………it helps me lot…thanks for a nice article….!!

By: Business Education

Business Education — Wed, 30 May 2007 00:27:36 +0000

I do not use SEO on my image. but to use tag maybe yes.
Because I think the reason people use image search is to see the picture, not a website. sometimes people like to search and copy the picture to their own hard drive.

So from all those reasons, I believe i will not get targeted traffic from image search.

By: Painter

Painter — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:38:42 +0000

Good advices.

But what to do with sites, written in languages differents from English? :(

I can’t name files with Russian keywords.

By: Saptarshi

Saptarshi — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:07:08 +0000

Good post and I can actually vote for the fact that image searches do contribute to your traffic and at times “useful” traffic. Besides the simple points mentioned here like keyword in file name and using proper alt attributes I have taken a few more steps while experimenting with SEO for Google image search ( http://seo-kolkata.blogspot.com/2007/03/search-engine-optimization-for-google.html ) that would contribute not only to SEO for google images search but also make the page more optimized for the normal web search.

By: Saptarshi

Saptarshi — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:00:05 +0000

Good post and I can actually vote for the fact that image searches do contribute to your traffic and at times "useful" traffic. Besides the simple points mentioned here like keyword in file name and using proper alt attributes I have taken a few more steps while experimenting with SEO for Google image search that would contribute not only to SEO for google images search but also make the page more optimized for the normal web search.

By: seo specialist

seo specialist — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:03:59 +0000

This has been my experience based on using google image search. Alt-ed up images bring interested traffic and it can convert. I don’t have experience there, but it probably also works well for those in adult sites.

On a related note, Darren, I noticed your optimization technique of including an alt-ed image in most of your posts. Smooth operator… Where do you get those graphics btw? Is it a deal with a graphics specialist, some filters in PS?…

By: Why the Google Images Optimization craze?

Why the Google Images Optimization craze? — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:48:13 +0000

[...] Is it just me, or is pretty much every Marketing and SEO Blog on the internet posting about how to Optimize your site for Google Images traffic, its just as if people have finally realised they can get traffic from the images, heres a few examples. ProBlogger, Pearsonified, Tucows. Now, don’t get us wrong, theres nothing wrong with bloggers telling people about new ways to get more traffic to their websites, but it is interesting how a lot of people blog about it at the same time, although its not something ‘new’. In the spirit of Google ol’ Search engine optimization, heres a look at what you can do to optimize your images for better rankings on Google Image Search. [...]

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:05:10 +0000

This tip accords with my experience. At first I thought that all the traffic from image searches was ‘wasted’ bandwidth, but a more careful scan of the logs shows multiple page views from a good number of these ‘accidental’ readers. Maybe as this tip becomes better known, it’ll encourage image optimization in the interests of saving bandwidth… and that’s a good thing, since we’re still seeing soooo many of those unnecessarily huge original images crammed into small display spaces with forced ‘height’ and ‘width’ just slowing down the page load…

Another thought – visitors who come to me from image searches are likely to be ‘fresh meat’ for the most part, people who might not otherwise find a certain site through the usual (highly competitive) text search – the battle of the keywords is a hard one for little guys to win!

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:23:09 +0000

It is well known that Google like images since it is proof that your site is made for users.

By: Ray

Ray — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:06:26 +0000

Nice article, yes with an complete information on the image tag its will optimize on Search image

By: Dave Starr

Dave Starr — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:04:05 +0000

I don’t use many images on my blogs, but I did notice earlier this week that when I coined a cutesy title about “showing a little leg” and included a picture of Kati Couric’s famous gams my traffic didn’t double, it tripled. Never underestimate the power of an image or the prurience of the average Internet searcher I guess.

My wife’s cooking blog is image heavy, (more than 10% of her traffic consistently comes from image search) she takes pictures of most of the dishes she mentions and we “watermark” them with her blog URL so those that get “borrowed” serve as advertising.

@ Jeff (and others) suffering with bandwidth issues … a. the name of the game is traffic, and hosting accounts with massive traffic allowances are just too numerous to mention, shop around. b. Any decent web hosting company has anti-hot linking software/setups available on their servers so again, find a better host or seek some competent setup advice so you can enjoy the power of pictures.

Mt dream is to wake up on morning and get a notice my blog is approaching bandwidth limits … that’s when I’ll know I am “in the club”.

By: Fitness Mantra

Fitness Mantra — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:46:33 +0000

Hello Darren,

Glad you and your readers found the tip useful. You will not believe how many hits I get from people searching for “fat babies” (and i totally used the image from a fitness point of view – http://www.fitnessmantra.info/2006/08/14/infants-are-increasingly-overweight-even-obese/)! :-)

Jeff, as for hot-linking, there are ways to configure your server not to allow other hosts to hot-link to your images (.htaccess baby!) and to only allow them to show up on your site (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=htaccess+prevent+hotlinking&btnG=Google+Search).

Hope that helped,
-FM.

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By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:22:29 +0000

I always wondered if you should use the same or different text for alt and title tags.

By: William Lehman

William Lehman — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:21:07 +0000

okay, I’ll only do 99 posts… (blogdesk only allows so many for editing)

By: William Lehman

William Lehman — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:18:06 +0000

thanks for this little tip… for some reason, I honestly hadn’t thought about doing this until now. It’s amazing how the little things can slip through the cracks. Okay, I must admit this intrigues me enough to try a little experiment. I have a little extra time today so I am going to go back through all my posts and just redo the alt attribute, and report back next week. (my blog is still fairly new, 3 months, so this isn’t as bad as it sounds)

if anything, I’ll get used to doing this in the process and it will just become second nature.

By: Alex Becker

Alex Becker — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:58:13 +0000

Hey thanks for the advice. I will give it a try and see how it goes.