Using Google Image Search To Earn $100s In Minutes
By Matt Jones on Mar 11, 2008 in Blogging Tips
$100 per month is nothing to shout about, but what if I said that bloggers who already have previous posts with images embedded in then could easily increase their monthly earnings by at least $100 in a matter of minutes?
I previously wrote about how Google Images loves H2 Tags and Directory Links. This is becoming more and more true for me every day as my AdSense earnings from niche blogs increase after making just a couple of tweaks to a couple of posts on a couple of blogs and using Submit Comfort to attain blog directory links. The majority of traffic to these niche blogs of mine comes from Google images, which means lots of happy AdSense clickers.
Optimizing Images For Google Image Search
Example of a well optimized image:
<img src=”http://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/insert_your_keywords_here.png” class=”centered” alt=”keywords_go_here_again” height=”250″ width=”400″ />
Points To Include:
- Name the image using the keywords you are aiming it to rank for. I use underscores to separate the words just to ensure Google can read them.
- Include it in a post optimized for the same keywords
- Use the keywords again in the alt text
- define the height and width of the image even if it is the right size for your page already
Some people also recommend adding the “title” attribute, but I did not do this for any of my images and they all rank very well. The links to the post the image is contained in (from my experience) helps the images gain good rankings in the Image search. It does not take many links to gain good rankings in image search because the vast majority of images online are not properly optimized to help Google know what the image is of.
How much traffic does Google Images send you?
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Right now I have G images blocked, but when I allowed it to index it brought maybe 10-15 visits per day.
I had no clue you could do this…:(
-Mike
I have been teaching image optimization to my clients for years and practice it myself.
I use the Title tag if I am linking from the image as well.
One of my biggest downfalls is that I don’t use images enough. I know I should be using them on every post but sometimes I just can’t seem to find an image that fits the post.
I am working on that though.
how do you know your getting traffic from google images?
what exactly is the referring URL?
In Google Analytics is shows up as images.google.com or images.google.co.uk (or wherever you get the traffic from). As far as I can tell Google images doesn’t give the exact URL, but mybloglog tracking does.
I use the same tactic and want to say that it brings some visitors to my blog every day!
Image search can bring in lots of non converting traffic, if you are posting what the masses are searching for.
Who really wants lots of lookie loos hanging around.
True, visitors from normal Websearch are better, but my image visitors are targeted enough to click on Adsense