Πώς να πάρει την κυκλοφορία από τις μηχανές αναζήτησης εικόνας

Ταχυδρομημένος κοντά Saad Hamid στις 23 Μαΐου 2007

Έψαχνα τις εικόνες Google για μερικές εικόνες σήμερα και διαπίστωσα ότι 80% των εικόνων που χρειάστηκα φιλοξενήθηκαν πράγματι στα blogs από όλα γύρω από τον Ιστό. Ένα σημαντικό πράγμα ότι θα ήθελα τα περισσότερα bloggers για να παρατηρήσω είναι ότι η μηχανή αναζήτησης bots π.χ. Το Google BOT όχι μόνο σέρνεται το περιεχόμενό σας αλλά και οι εικόνες blog σας και τους συντάσσει ευρετήριο εντελώς στην αναζήτηση εικόνας τους.

Κυκλοφορία από τις μηχανές αναζήτησης εικόνας

Πολλά bloggers υποτιμούν την κινητήρια δύναμη κυκλοφορίας των μόνος-φιλοξενημένων εικόνων ή στις περισσότερες περιπτώσεις δεν ξέρουν ακόμη και τις τεράστιες επιδράσεις της φιλοξενίας των εικόνων στο blog τους. Εδώ είναι ένας κατάλογος λόγων για τους οποίους τα bloggers προτιμούν όχι από τον οικοδεσπότη τις εικόνες στο blog τους:

1. Σκέφτονται ότι σώζουν το εύρος ζώνης

Με εμπιστευθείτε ο κόσμος δεν είναι στους ώμους σας. Δεν πρόκειται να κάνετε οποιοδήποτε αγαθό με τη διάσωση του εύρους ζώνης blog σας. Εάν σκέφτεστε ότι με τη διάσωση του εύρους ζώνης σας κάνετε τις μελλοντικές επενδύσεις ή βοηθάτε τους φτωχούς έπειτα είστε απολύτως από το μυαλό σας. Αυτό είναι ο εικονικός κόσμος, ο κόσμος Ιστού, και εδώ κανένας δεν είναι φτωχός ή πλούσιος. Με την μη φιλοξενία των εικόνων στο blog σας λέτε αμέσως μηχανή ότι αναζήτησης bots «δεν θέλω την κυκλοφορία παρακαλώ δεν σέρνομαι εγώ»

2. Σκέφτονται ότι κερδίζουν χρόνο

Εάν σκέφτεστε ότι ο κόσμος στηρίζεται σε σας για να δώσει σε πολύτιμό σας λίγο χρόνο σε τους, να σκεφτεί καλύτερα πάλι. Δεν σκέφτομαι ότι να πάρει την ελεύθερη ποιοτική κυκλοφορία από τις μηχανές αναζήτησης με κόστος της πρόσθετης εργασίας λεπτών 5-10 για το blog σας πρόκειται να κάνει τις σοβαρές απώλειες σε σας. Με τη φιλοξενία των εικόνων στο blog σας όχι μόνο παίρνετε την κυκλοφορία αλλά κερδίζετε το μελλοντικό χρόνο σας που μπορεί να πάρει εξαντλημένος στις βαριές βελτιστοποιήσεις μηχανών αναζήτησης.

3. Σκέφτονται εύκολό του

Φιλοξενία των εικόνων σας στις υπηρεσίες όπως Photobucket, ImageShack και Flickr και έπειτα χρησιμοποίηση των παραγμένων κωδίκων για να παρουσιάσει εκείνες τις εικόνες/εικόνες στο blog σας huh; Καλείτε αυτός εύκολος; If you are using either of Wordpress or Blogger platform for your blogging needs then hosting an image is just easy as click of a button so don't waste your time doing uploading elsewhere and then copying codes to show your images.

4. They Think Its Safe and Secure

I agree to some extent with the fact that hosting images on services like Photobucket, ImageShack or Flickr is 100% safe as there is very little chance for you to lose any image ever but if you have a decent host then most likely you won't lose your images from your server too. After all Image hosting services are also run on normal dedicated hosts and not something out of the skies. DreamHost is the most reliable host I know especially for bloggers so if you have your blog hosted with them or with hosts of similar potential then hosting images on your own blog is totally safe and you should not worry a pint about losing your images or about their security.

Tips To Build Traffic From Search Engines

Now that you know what bloggers are mainly afraid of in hosting their images on their blog and its relative impacts let us discuss some tips which can help us assure that search engine bots index our images in image search results.

1. Start Uploading Images On Your WebHost

This is the key to the door which brings in your traffic. For a search bot its not the page where the image was found and crawled rather the server or host or site where the image is apparently located. Make an upload folder on your blog and start uploading the images you use in that particular folder so whenever a bot crawls your pages it indexes your images on image search engines and gets you traffic.

Uploading images on your server means you are communicating with the image-search bots in a I-Have-It-Come-Get-It tone.

2. Use Good Keyword names For Your Images

If you have an image of Google logo in JPEG format and you save it with the name 1.jpeg just think yourself how will the innocent image-search bot will know what the image is about? and certainly it will tag the image for the keyword "one" or "1" instead of "Google logo".

In this case you lose your real site traffic too and get ranked for unmatched keywords which is just destroying your Search Engine Ranking Position structure and doing you no good at all. So be creative and give your images names which actually match to what they really are.

3. Use The 'alt' attribute in Image Tags

Just like the Image name there is another important factor that the image search bots keep in mind while ranking your images for a certain keyword.

Its the very sweet 'alt' attribute which most of us do not use in our Image tags because we want to save our time or mainly because we think its useless. The 'alt' attribute is very important to place while writing the tag code for your image as it servers another keyword targeting purpose for image search bot.

It can be the same as the Image name but is targeted by image search bots for the purpose of ranking your images for a keyword.

4. Enable Google Enhanced Image Search

As Google is the primary search engine everyone uses and talks about. Its good if you use the Google Enhanced Image Search functionality in your Google Webmaster Dashboard to take use of this feature and rank your images higher in Google Image Search.

To enable the images on your site to be used with these types of tools, simply, access the site in webmaster tools, then choose Diagnostic > Enhanced Image Search. Once you have opted-in, you can opt-out at any time by returning to this page and clearing the checkbox.

5. Enable Access To The Image Uploads Folder

Make a robots.txt file in your main blog directory or most probably you will already have one. Just allow access to the search engine bots to your Image Uploads Folder so they can crawl your directories and enlist the images more properly and accurately.

Make sure to add this in your robots.txt file:

# The Googlebot-Image is the image bot for google
User-agent: Googlebot-Image

# Allow Everything
Allow: /*

I hope the article was useful and informative. I enjoyed a lot writing and sharing my experience with your people.

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  • Hey cool tip, I get some 50 unqiues daily from the image search keyword "Harry Potter" and "iPhone" in Google Images :grin: .

    Hey but frankly speaking, I've not read this post completely :evil: but have bookmarked it for a regular reading :mrgreen: .
  • hey dj, great article. the reason i dont support this is because all the traffic you will get from google will be people soley interested in the images. maybe a very small percentage will click through to your site, but the chance that they would stay is very unlikely. the only upside i can see to hosting pictures is the amount of links you can get. these links come when people steal you image and therefore your bandwith. however you do get a link in the process. sometimes ive considered hosting a crapload of images simply so that i can recieve alot of links. whats your take?
  • A blogger
    so, this is awesome post .. that u made for us .. i apreciate and i come back all time to read you .. before i will come back again please let me know if u have any tool to add tags to images .. i did read the whole post that u made but ive not seen a tool that will add tags to images ..
    And another think that im trying to find out is what do we have to write in robots.txt to alow image google bot ?

    Thx and i wil apreciate if u will answer with better tips !
  • Rishi If you read the post with more detail you will find tricks that can help you get more and more traffic from Google Images :smile:

    Jake Hosting images just for the sake of getting backlinks is not the main point here bro. Search Engine traffic is very much important for a better SEO and SERP, whether it is Image Search Traffic but it counts as search engine traffic. Not only do you get a constant traffic from search engines this way but also this traffic increases and most likely you are to achieve higher rankings in Image search engines :cool:

    A blogger Unless you are using some Image host like Flickr, Photobucket I don't think there is any way to tag your images but still thats just what I know. However The Google Image Labeler is a technology by Google that automatically tags/labels your images with the most suitable keywords. So you do not need to worry about tagging your images but always remember to use the 'alt' attribute in your image links.

    By default the Image Search Bots will have access to your image uploads folder. Just make sure you don't put any Disallow attribute in your robots.txt for that particular directory and everyone will just be fine
  • Good post, Dj. That Webmaster tool is the best way to get your images enhanced and get traffic. Till date, I've got zero traffic from any image search engine :D Hope, they'll get increased if I follow your tips :)
  • Nameer
    Amazing traffic generating Tips :mrgreen: Indeed Image search engines have a great potential to increase a blog/site's traffic but webmasters do not pay more heed to it. Great post once again
  • Shankar Ganesh I think I have just started getting little traffic from Google Image Search and in the future expect this traffic to grow more :cool:

    Nameer You are right bro :smile: Its all about discovering more traffic generating routes for your blog
  • A Blogger
    Ohh now i understand .. Dj Flush :)
    So here it is .. adding tags .. hmm :idea:

    I add tags to images... but is there any limit ?
    how many tags can i add to a photo? ... can you guys say about a normal limit .. ?
    And that it's very important !!!
    Tags must to reflect on photo and text u got in !
  • A Blogger If you are asking about adding tags to your photos at PhotoBucket or Flickr then let me tell you they will make no use to your blog traffic and that is what the whole article is about "Saying No to Image Hosts and Using Self-Hosted Images" :cool:

    and if you are asking about adding tags to your self-hosted photos using Google Image Labeler then let me tell you that the Google Image Labeler is basically an automated service by Google that automatically ads tags to the images indexed by the Google search bot so you need not to do anything at all :smile:
  • Great tips man , wish i could have known them sooner
  • Madhur Kapoor Trust me bro there are a billion things about blogging that I wish too I would have known earlier but there is always a new start.

    and this is not that much big of a deal as you can start self-hosting images on your blog from today. The next time the Image search bot visits your blog it will definitely index it :oops:
  • A Blogger
    Im not talking about images stored in other parts ..

    1) Im talking about images stored in your .. as default many have "wp-content" uploads .. and this are sorted by date as a option ..
    2) Let me tell u guys what I found :
    -save a image as .bmp
    - then right click on it , properties and there u will see that u can add: name of the image, keywords , and a description !
    Did u know that ?
  • Good Info. Now I am getting traffic from a lot of image search engines to my site.

    Thanks a lot.
  • Hi,

    Also the text around the image is very important. I always try to add some descriptive text after the image.
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