How to Get Traffic from Google Image Search
Do you know that you could get a lot of traffic from Google Image Search? Taree Internet Forum shared a few tips to optimize your site for Google Image Search. They are basic tips but not many publishers apply them on their websites.
- Alt text — ALT text or Alternate Text, is the text to describe your image when your mouse over an image on a web page. The text should be meaningful but keep it short. You should use search keywords for ALT text. Here is sample image code with ALT text:
<img src="filename.gif" alt="image description here" /> - File name — always use meaningful file name to your images, use image file name like “apple-iphone-cover.jpg” instead of meaningless “pic123.jpg”. Keep image file name same or similar to ALT text. Also, try to keep the path to your image theme such as:
/images/phones/apple-iphone-covers.jpg - Surrounding Text — always place a paragraph of descriptive text directly above and below your image, with the keywords from your ALT text and Image Name.
- Page Title — Include your keywords in your Page Title and Meta Description. It helps Google define the theme for the page which helps in Image Searches and Google Search Index.
- Page Theme — Keep the theme of each page. Do not mix the content with other topics.
- Links — Whenever you want to link to your image, use the image keywords in your link text. Example: use “Picture of Apple iPhone”, instead of “Click here to view picture”. The link text tells Googlebot that it is a link to a picture of Apple iPhone.
My two cents
The visitors bring in by Google Images Search consists of 3.8% of the total site traffic of LiewCF Tech Blog. That’s a lot for a non-photo gallery site.
Perhaps you might be lazy to do the image optimization works but they really worth your time, if you want to bring more traffic to your website. Try it!
Thank you for such great tips.
I wonders perhaps you can teach everyone here how do you categorize each folder with its own images?
Thanks in advance.
@Iz: you mean for blog? I think manual upload is the way… anyone know a better way?
Oh, I thought there is a plugin that we can use for that. :P
If you don’t mind perhaps soon could you be listing your top plugins in your blog so that others beginner like me could learn and benefits from the experts.
Thanks! Good luck!
yes, this tips works because i’ve been using it on my other sites.
Good traffic building tip that’s been used by webmasters for a long time. It’s good for bloggers to know how to do this too.
oh, these tips made me realise how many mistakes i have been doing all this while. Shall keep tweaking until i get them right. Thanx man!
well, to me, i am just lazy to change my image name, add alt tag. haha. sometimes , if lazy can’t make money, i’ll try to be more HARDWORKING.
RE: File name – we cant able to change the file name for those free image upload service such as imageshack.us… except hosted at our own hosting
Yeah I have been using these tactics and it generate lots of traffic to my photo gallery sites.
Yes it Works! but I am just tooo lazy to share it out. Thanks for sharing.
It’s a good idea to use images to get Search Engine traffic. Most people are so focused on text content SEO and overlook this part. Great Tip!
Google image search works great for my blogs. Thanks for sharing Liew
Thankyou very much for linking to my article as the source, unfortunately alot of webmasters don’t share the same courtesy.
Keep up the good work, and thanks again for the link back and also the fact you didn’t copy it verbatim but actually summarized and personalised it with your own words.
All signs of a great blogger/webmaster :)
a very good tips..thanks.. i already use this technique…