Get more Google Images Traffic Now

Some websites depend heavily on the images on their pages like celebrity blogs. They post about 20 to 30 photos on their posts, but none of the photos get indexed. Why? It ‘s a grey area what people know about Google Images and how their bot works. In this post, I would like to show you how to get your images indexed faster in Google Images and getting more traffic from indexed images.

First of all, most of you know that link building is the key to a high PR and therefore high traffic website. Google Images work in the same way! You need to get as much links with relevant anchor text to your images as possible. For example, using a script to get the last 5 posted images and place them with thumbnails on your toolbar will get you a lot of pages linking to that 5 recent images.

Also try posting your images on photo forums and link directly to your images. I know this will probably hurt you bandwith-wise, but it will really help your images get listed on Google Images.

Don’t name your images like my_image_name.jpg. Name them with “-” between words like my-image-name.jpg. This way Search Engine Bots, especially Googlebot, will recognize the image name as 3 different words. Another optimization would be using the keywords on the same paragraph of the image that is between the <p> and </p> tags.

Now lets get to the grey hat seo part. When you have your images listed on Google Images, people will look at the thumbnail and click it, getting to the 2 frame page with your website on the bottom. People searching for images on a certain niche can leave your site immediately if they think that your webpage is unrelated. We don’t want to take this chance and force the visitor to visit your blog by adding a couple of codes to your webpage.

Here is the javascript code the break the Google Image Search Frame from image results:

<script language=”JavaScript1.1″ type=”text/JavaScript”>
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);</script>

Now what you can do is to add a specific code to detect that the referrer is google images and display related images on that page. The PHP code to determine the referrer and the search keyword is:

$queryurl = $_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’];
$refer = parse_url($_SERVER[’HTTP_REFERER’]);
$refer= $refer[’host’];

if(strstr ($refer, ‘yahoo’)){
ereg(’p=(.*)’,$queryurl,$match);
}

else{
ereg(’q=(.*)’,$queryurl,$match);
}

$qstring = str_replace(’+’,’ ‘,$match[1]);

Now you have $qstring which is the image search keyword and $refer , which is the referring image search engine (most probably Googe Image Search). Now you can include a simple php page with file name “$qstring”.html containing related images to the $qstring. I am not going into details of writing the code to display related images, since it can depend on what kind of CMS you are running on your website.