Google image is one of the popular search engine for searching images which is used by many users around internet. They search for images and screen shots by typing particular keyword related to the image, then google will display the result from millions of blogs and site around the world within some seconds.
Bloggers optimize the image which they are using in their blog post to get index and rank well in google images so that they can get some traffic and exposure to their images. If your blog is a tutorial or any photography blog traffic from image search will be useful But do you why it is useless for TECH related blogs ?
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1. Increase Bounce rate
Traffic from google images will surely increase your bounce rate, user generally visit your site via image search, their intention is just to see or download the image not to read your article, so they will surely quit your blog soon after downloading the image, so your bounce rate and time spend in your site will surely affected.
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2. Useless Traffic
Because you are not running any design or image hosting site to make user to download and see your images via search engine for that specific keyword, you are just adding image to make article attractive for your readers.
The traffic from these image search engines won’t improve your blog performance so you cannot earn money, loyal visitors, subscribers through this image traffic.
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3. Hotlink – Bandwidth theft
Main thing is, there is high possibilities of stealing your bandwidth by hotlinking your images in their site or blog as a result it will affect your server bandwidth which will ruin your blog performance badly.
Final Words -
There is nothing wrong in optimizing your site for google images but the thing is you can’t do anything with that traffic.
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Fantastic article Sudharshan. Well, this might be the reason for my increase in Bounce rate. My blog ranks very popular for the keyword “paypal” in google images and I think that is the reason for increase in bounce rate from 68-75.
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ya its true sathish
you can host images in flickr and photobucket etc ..to get rid of bandiwidth issues
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why not upload pics to flickr and let them take on the bandwidth
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but many bloggers used to share pict from their hosting
Liked this post.. Then how will we prevent this bad traffic ?
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There is a plugin to do this job or you can also use .htaccess file to avoid these activities
oh…thats really a concern for me too…
do u have any solution for it,
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I agree with you, traffic from image searches might not be very good, but certainly they are good in improving Alexa rank? And perhaps any traffic is better than no traffic?
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S very correct
How to prevent other people hotlinking my images and how to know that?
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There is a separate plugin to do that or you can edit your .htaccess file to prevent this theft
SO dumb of me…!
i kept optimising images for traffic thru search!
this is big culprit for my increase in bursty traffic!
yeah m well aware of that hotlinking and had a written a blog on it!
i knew a lurking danger of bandwidth stealing but never thought of SEO way!
thanks sudharsan!
You can prevent hotlinking by installing plugin or making some tweaks in .htaccess file
So no problem dude
Put it this way, traffic from image search are like bonus traffic, on top of your existing traffic. I would rather have a blog with high traffic and high bounce rate than a blog with little readers and low bounce rate.
There is still a chance of capturing a loyal reader from that bonus traffic. He might start reading the entire article if he finds it interesting, and might further explore your blog. Chances are low, but it’s there.
For hotlinking, I’m not too worried since bandwidth is not much an issue, with hosts offering bandwidth that is not likely to deplete without serious effort. You can easily prevent hotlinking via .htaccess if you’re worried.
All in all, I’d welcome visitors from Google Image search just like any other visitors. Even if you can’t convert them, it might help in your blog’s branding. The next time he visits your blog, he’d probably says “Ah, I remember visiting this blog”.
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wow, Thanks so much for clear explanations vincent.
Really Nice to see you in my blog.
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Even we can some money through Google images traffic. Do you know http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/break-out-of-frames-wordpress-plugin/ wordpress plugin will directly redirect your search traffic to your page containing images.
Hope this will be very handy and helping to improve your traffic.
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