This post was an homage to the readers who have been here since the beginning and still find time to comment.

Yes the Check Mates are going to be a new section of this site.

Tre Slick Homes. Tre Slick. Appreciations to all of the free, well organized info/services you’ve been putting together over the past few months. Respect

Sorry for the double post boss but you should place that donate link somewhere more convenient. Took me a minute to find the sucker–

Awesome Eli. Great info.

Brilliant! It took me a while to figure out what you were doing. I can be slow sometimes. Well, most of the time.

would removing the frame have any penalization?

You think Eli would post a tip, and then make it not work with the last step? c’mon

awesome post, you always writing about things ive never heard of. keep em coming

Im going to try your tweaks right meow…

What about title tags on the images? Do these not add any benfit to Google Image searches?

Why xsrc and not just src?
xsrc does not seem to do anything in Firefox.

The xsrc=�?images/keyword.jpg�? and mce_src=�?images/keyword.jpg�? are just wordpress being incredibly gay. its really src=”images/keyword.jpg”

I couldn’t get any conclusive results with the title tags. Perhaps someone could prove me wrong on that.

How long does it normally take to start seeing traffic?

Thank you for the article. Gold… pure gold. Keep them coming

I am new to SEO, but I really love your sight. Hard hitting facts, as opposed to fluff. I like that it is technical - make people think it through, and you will keep and audiance of people who are willing to do the work to get results.

Really Eli, how do you cope the adoration of the masses? The burden of such fame and admiration must be simply unbearable

That said, this is a cool tip. For some reason my PAD site I started after reading your Link Laundering post gets TONS of google image hits.

Cheers (as usual)

Once I added an image to one of my pages and the next day it was in top10 in the G image search.

Making use of Google Images traffic

Saw a great set of tips over at Blue Hat SEO today about optimizing for (and getting some value from) Google image search traffic. I’ll skip the optimizing part right now, but the other part is golden. First, add a

I have been thinking about adding a module to my site builder that adds keyword optimized images to each page. I think this gives me more reason to do it, man you really make me think Eli, thanks for the great site!

I like label tags on images, but with titles, alts, and labels, you could be spamming.

Hi Eli,

Been lurking around here for a while now. Your blog makes excellent reading, to the point, effective techniques.

I thought I’d pass a comment that might be helpful to some people here. Your factor 3 in ranking (alt text), I can verify this does actually help with rankings for images and normal serps. I have an image hosting site which provides html for our hosted images. This gets me around 100 new links per day and if I change the alt text I give out I can get the site/images to rank for different keywords.

Keep the great info coming.

Mark

I have a porn video site that has the usual large numbers of screen caps. I was getting nearly a thousand Google Images hits a day.

2 weeks ago I added the script that automatically removes the google frame (found elsewhere)…

if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);


Interesting, almost immediately my Google Images traffic dropped to under 20 per day. After nearly 2 weeks I removed that script from site. The next day my Google Images traffic returned.

Has anyone else every experienced anything similar to that?

btw … great image optimizing tips.

Eli is spot on with this post. It always amazes me how quickly and how much traffic flows with Google Image search. I still toss the alts in there for good measure but as was said in the post it is not a huge factor.

Nice traffic recovery on the Lingerie site dude. The beaters can wreak havoc on e-commerce lingerie sites… Well played dude.

Highest quality of actionable SEO stuff online. You’re the best.

Dan

Great stuff.

images/relatedkeyword/keyword.jpg should help too.

Actually it is a possibility. It won’t ban you from the engine but google images may block your images if you just outright use the frame buster. I know it works with Yahoo but there is rare instances where google will temporarily stop showing your images until you remove the code. For this case I recommend you remove the code (reinclusion should be almost immediate) then check for the referrer before breaking the frame.

Eli, you might want to use NVU for writing your posts. Even [3] Guy Kawasaki uses it on his blog.

I have experience as a user, where there’s too many sites redirecting you to their spam; I immediately back out of those sites because I didn’t get what I was looking for.

Hello,
no problems with Google about this tactic ?
Sounds a little bit strange, that the Bot won’t see that ?
Regards
Frank

You didn’t mention hyperlinking the image to the image location. I have found that if you link the image so that it pops up in a small window or something, that this also helps the ranking in Google images as well as Yahoo.

Have you tested this yourself?

This is brilliant. It seems only logical, that this will work. I am testing it myself right now

Thanks, man

Nice post Eli!

But where do you get the images from? G, like other SEs, is certainly applying duplicate content filters to images, so using scraped images is not the answer. But, like using Markov for text, images can be automatically combined and modified to make them ‘unique’! A new dimension of BH: IMAGE SPAM!

Cute.. I was looking for ways to make my cliparts rank in google image search and I forgot on the keyword matching part. I did use alt tags but the heading and subheadings were not a keyword, rather a text like ‘click to download’. So I am off the get it changed. Thanks.

Lately I’ve been getting an increasing amount of traffic from Google Images, I think because of two reasons. 1: My site is getting more trusted by Google. 2: My site has a LOT of images.

So I might just use that code to remove the Google frame, hopefully it doesn’t hurt anything

Are these the only factors which are taken into account? Does google not take into account page title, incoming links etc?

But if you have, say, a thumbnail gallery with the same keyword under each image, how much is too much? Should the thumbnail title (in the same ) be changed, and leave the image name relevant?

Ya know I gotta say, the best results you can have with google images is to not try to trick them. The whole search system is nothing like the keyword search. It’s completely based off of thumbnail galleries and their traits. So if you just mimic the standard thumbnail gallery you should be fine in everyway.

Eli this is a great blog but you are missing out on the main tag that gets your image indexed in Google: A

By creating a link around your image and keyword you will ensure the image is crawled and gets better placement.

Keyword 1

keyword 4

hm that didn’t work - i’ll try using ascii characters:

<p><a href="/large-image.jpg" title="keyword"><img s rc=”images/keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />
keyword</a></p>

indeed. it is important to put the link to the actual full sized image in order to get the full sized version indexed but as far as factors go it technically isn’t one so I didn’t include it. I was trying to give the most simplistic example, which means no link to the full sized image because technically its not needed to get it indexed. But if you want to rank for the large and/or medium sized images yes of course you would want to link to the full sized because it wouldn’t naturally fit on the page.

Thanks for pointing that out though, its good information to know. I should of included it in the post.

Gay? As in fabulous?

I was wondering why I have some image traffic. If I will optimize all than I get even more traffic.

well this is something ive never heard of before!

Nice to have a feel of different hats

great post! thanks
i also use title tag on my image

it shows the keyword when mouse hover

Cool stuff

Sure ‘Digg-in’ all the cool tips to ‘Stumble’ here Eli’. keep rockin’ you beautiful [4] crazy genius you.

We’ll see you around as always.

peace,
Mr. Seo Hat

Ping back
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Love this post. I used this technique on one of my sites - it hasn’t sent me any traffic yet… but funnily enough I am picking up long tail from Google search for a term on the site related to the content in the images.

I never know what the exact terms are going to be that bring in the traffic. It’s good to have content that is “semantically related” to a keyword rather than just bombarding your pages with the exact keyword itself.

Hi

I’m currently working on images visibility (on my website - I’m professional photographer - 70% of my Google traffic is from Google Images, with an average number of 1000 visitors each day with 250 indexed images)

Are-you sure about metadata (IPTC) images consideration in Google Images ?… It’s an element I don’t take care at this day !

On the other hand, is the URL of the image file should be absolutly on the same domain ?…

Cordialy,

Cedric

Embarrassed to say it but this totally lost me (:

I like the idea of redirecting the traffic

What about adding a header tag in the same logical block as the image?

For instance:

Keyword

keyword

Since the HTML tags didn’t come through, I’ll explain. Basically replace the p tag with an h1 tag. Reflect.

I have noticed on most of my sites is that it takes a very long time for your images to show up within the google image searches. Anyone know any ways to speed this up?

I have a blog that posts images from a lot of other sites, I basically hotlink the thumbnails (because I’m too lazy to upload them to blogger.com), with a link to the original… and most of my traffic now comes from Google Images. It sends people to my site instead of to the original. I didn’t even do that on purpose!

I’m guessing whichever page optimizes the images best gets the traffic, whether the images originate from that domain or not. Which makes no logical sense. But I’m not complaining…

Very nice explanation eli..

Now i am going to start website on wallpapers with correctly optimized…
with image alt attributes..

thank you Eli..

I got a lot of referrals from google images, now I have learned how not to wast them, thank you, this is a very practical tip.

As always…very nice. I would be interested in the actual experiment and the time it took to get an image indexed.

This is totally new for me.. I have my site so i will try this to my site.. thanks 4 informing

Very Inspiring. You get the wheels turning in my head.

Thanks for this great article. We gonna consider it in our SEO activities.

Thanks Eli. Great article. You are an SEO machine!

Thanks for this nice article - You are the best!

OMG this worked a treat for my blog! I started this blog at the beginning of December 2008 and Google has just started indexing my images recently (and some are appearing on the first page of the image search results already!). Thanks heaps

Great SEO info. I have never heard about this. Thanks for the helpful SEO advice.

What if we put H1 inside the same as image? Is that still a well optimized image?

Awesome tips.

Nice image script.

This seems pretty simple. thanks.

Nice image.

I was thinking about trying to use google images for some SEO work. I’m not sure how well it would work though.

wow Image plus SEO

Nice tips, thank you very much!

Thanks … I’ll Try This !

WOW! great post! thanks!!!

There is everything that you can expect from a good post …………. Thanks

my website is purely made of images…
it will help me alot…
but i am afraid…
i dont want to get banned from google…
please tell me….
should i apply this method or not…
please help

Thanx man, that helped a lot!

I generally forget alt tag

Thanks…

sounds like black hat

maybe its worth a try

This would be a great way to keep people on your own site, surely we could just redirect them to our own homepage. I can’t help but feel google are scraping our images and not that bothered about delivering traffic to us from it.

Thanx man, that helped a lot!

cool tips! i will try it for my new wallpaper site

thanks for post, i have just start learning about this. image search brings amazing traffic!!

Thanks, this tutorial helps a lot optimized my product pages on my site

good tips, thanks

Actually it is a possibility. It won’t ban you from the engine but google images may block your images if you just outright use the frame buster. I know it works with Yahoo but there is rare instances where google will temporarily stop showing your images until you remove the code. For this case I recommend you remove the code (reinclusion should be almost immediate) then check for the referrer before breaking the frame.

Amazing Eli. Great information!!!

Thanks for this nice article - You are the best!

This is a very helpful post. Image optimization will boost your image in the SE results. We should not rely on the traffic from image optimization as most of the users search images just for the sake of images and no further information.

The image optimization techniques mentioned are great and thank you again for this wonderful post.

WOW, this really is a good seo tip by all means.

The information you provided was very useful. Because of your help, thank you

I was wondering why I have some image traffic. If I will optimize all than I get even more traffic.

Very nice explanation eli..

Now i am going to start website on wallpapers with correctly optimized…
with image alt attributes..

thank you Eli..

Very nice stuff! Thanx

Joe Cracker is a noob and a half.

Thanks for sharing your unique ideas.

You didn’t mention hyperlinking the image to the image location. I have found that if you link the image so that it pops up in a small window or something, that this also helps the ranking in Google images as well as Yahoo.

Have you tested this yourself?

Nice checkmate Mate! Great post as always.

Thanks for this nice article - You are the best!

very very useful info. you are so so great!

Very nice & useful stuff! Thanks!

Very clever article. Thought evoking to say the least. Thanks for the post.

Well prepared, however im not sure if this .htaccess code is working corectly.

Point number 5 is most important, Google give preference to those images which have keywords in text nearby.

Very clever article.

Calendars have become popular gifts because many are filled with beautiful pictures

I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!

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I do agree with all of the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too short for newbies. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.

it’s great! thx

Nice checkmate Mate! Great post as always.

But I don’t like how you mess with wikipedia, I love wikipedia

keep it up
thanx

thank Very clever article. Thought evoking to say the least. Thanks for the post

great post! thanks.

Can you get much traffic from google image search?

Nice image script. Thanks for the great help!

Are these the only factors which are taken into account? Does google not take into account page title, incoming links etc?

Nice image script. Thanks for the great help!

thank you brother

Nice image script.

thank you friend. nice work.

Do these not add any benfit to Google Image searches?

Eli is spot on with this post. It always amazes me how quickly and how much traffic flows with Google Image search. I still toss the alts in there for good measure but as was said in the post it is not a huge factor.

I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!

Can you get much traffic from google image thank

Eli is spot on with this post.

Another great post, I appreciate all the work you put into this site, helping out others with your fun and creative works

appreciate all the work you put into this site, helping out others with your fun and creative

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appreciate all the work you put into this site, helping out others with your fun and creative

appreciate all the work you put into this site, helping out others with your fun and creative

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Brilliant! It took me a while to figure out what you were doing. I can be slow sometimes. Well, most of the time.

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Thanks for tips considering images

Eli, This article is GREAT it can be EXCELLENT JOB and what a great tool! More Power

I agree, thanks for sharing this with us. And to all out there, good luck to all!

Keep up the great work, Eli. These are brilliant and truly unique ideas you have here.

Yes, article is very very good! Adds many insights for my continued use. Thanks a lot.

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Great Post Eli Was definitely worth a read

Yeah been waiting for this

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That’s a great Blog list

I’ll second that

Yes we can, thats why there are so many people doing it.

All the info regarding this you can find above

Thats a great Script lol

Gr8 work Eli..

Worthwhile article actuly

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Pretty awesome cool. Nice work! I’ll test it out with a few of my sites and see what happens.

This is an nice looking blog. I’ve formed a few sites and see if this works out.

Pretty awesome cool. Nice work! I’ll test it out with a few of my sites and see what happens.

I agree, thanks for sharing this with us. good luck

Thanks for this article, very interesting.

LOL… that goes our images

Google have really changed since then

Great post about google images
thank you

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I agree, thanks for sharing this with us. And to all out there, good luck to a

These steps would really be helpful for optimizing a site. I will try to do this one. Good thing I saw this post.

Very simple. Thanks.

me too,..never know how important tags are until i noticed all my codes are jumbled together

what is befints of the keywords site over google adwords. and yahoo overtuer

Pretty awesome cool. Nice work! I’ll test it out with a few of my sites and see what happens.

Google have really changed since then

me too,..never know how important tags are until i noticed all my codes are jumbled together
thanks

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