Google Image Traffic

[adventurelife]

I am noticing that we are getting increase traffic from goggle images, hence I want to increase the number of images google has of us

How do you ensure that pictures are indexed by google images?

[SteveGibson]

I am noticing that we are getting increase traffic from goggle images, hence I want to increase the number of images google has of us

How do you ensure that pictures are indexed by google images?

I saw a video by someone (can't remember who) who suggested the image title tag is an important element.

However, I've not tested this so I can't say whether it's true.

Steve

[Gillie]

I saw a video by someone (can't remember who) who suggested the image title tag is an important element.

However, I've not tested this so I can't say whether it's true.

Steve

Gosh did I read right ... Steve aint tested it??!!??!! :eek:

(sorry easy target though today!!)

I would have thought that as long as you put the correct filename and tags to a picture it would get picked up. Mind the amount of people who just stick in image01 etc ... and no, don't go looking at my sites and tell me I do it - I aint got the foggiest as I can't see anyone wanting images of money!!

But yes products, would have thought it a very good idea!

[fisicx]

Page title, image caption, alt text and relevant supporting content.

Give google something to index and they usually rank very well.

[deniser]

Good question.

My site isn't at all well represented in Google images unlike the normal search results where we dominate our little niche.

I don't think the image title tag is enough as I am careful with this.

I wonder whether it is similar to the brand name searches where preference is given to the little sites?

The strange thing is that when I search for a brand name that is exclusive to me that no-one else stocks then the image search brings up a completely random set of images from my site which have no relevance or connection to the brand name searched against. So not quite sure how the connection works.....

[I, Brian]

Google Images traffic tends to be vanity traffic - informational, not transactional - unless you're very clever with it.

So unless you can measure returns already from it, it's not necessarily a channel to prioritise IMO.

[SteveGibson]

Gosh did I read right ... Steve aint tested it??!!??!! :eek:

It's SEO. Who cares about that?

I've got more important things to test.

Steve

[adventurelife]

Google Images traffic tends to be vanity traffic - informational, not transactional - unless you're very clever with it.

So unless you can measure returns already from it, it's not necessarily a channel to prioritise IMO.

Hi

The reason I asked was as I had a slightly strange enquiry asking detail that was not on the website. When I asked how she found us it was via google images so I then checked the traffic and they are sending serious traffic so thought I would pay a bit more attention to them. They are also getting distributed around the web via SM. Hard to track but the more touch points the better.

[adventurelife]

Thanks to everyone for the input very useful. Will do some testing now.

[sirearl]

if your using google sitemaps you can turn on enhanced images .

Earl