Google images generate a lot of traffic is there a way to get to the top?

I have noticed that google image search generates a lot ot traffic,
even more than 6 months ago for my sites, sometimes more than yahoo or
msn normal text searches. Is there a way to get your images to the
top/first page of google images seach? Thank you
Mark

__/ [ markbiernat (AT) yahoo (DOT) com ] on Sunday 02 July 2006 10:01 \__

I have noticed that google image search generates a lot ot traffic,
even more than 6 months ago for my sites, sometimes more than yahoo or
msn normal text searches. Is there a way to get your images to the
top/first page of google images seach? Thank you
Mark

From some mere experience, it helps if you use the alt attribute to describe
the image in a form that less ambiguous than a caption (and its location,
unless you use Web standard). Other than that, the amount of images and
their files names matter. Use hyphens and include descriptive words in the
image filenames. I have actually had a decrease in referrals from Google
Images recently. Last months it comfortably exceeded 1000 a day.

Best wishes,

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [ markbiernat (AT) yahoo (DOT) com ] on Sunday 02 July 2006 10:01 \__

I have noticed that google image search generates a lot ot traffic,
even more than 6 months ago for my sites, sometimes more than yahoo or
msn normal text searches. Is there a way to get your images to the
top/first page of google images seach? Thank you
Mark

From some mere experience, it helps if you use the alt attribute to describe
the image in a form that less ambiguous than a caption (and its location,
unless you use Web standard). Other than that, the amount of images and
their files names matter. Use hyphens and include descriptive words in the
image filenames. I have actually had a decrease in referrals from Google
Images recently. Last months it comfortably exceeded 1000 a day.

That pretty well covers it. Play around with the alt attribute and
remember that logical naming conventions apply.

Just some additional observations :

I noticed that if there is content within the same web page that
supports the image's keyphrase then the image seems to get a relevancy
boost.

I sometimes wonder whether having links to images increases the image's
postions in the image SERPs. I haven't found a need to experiment with
that yet.

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Fred

__/ [ canadafred ] on Sunday 02 July 2006 12:37 \__

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
__/ [ markbiernat (AT) yahoo (DOT) com ] on Sunday 02 July 2006 10:01 \__

I have noticed that google image search generates a lot ot traffic,
even more than 6 months ago for my sites, sometimes more than yahoo or
msn normal text searches. Is there a way to get your images to the
top/first page of google images seach? Thank you
Mark

From some mere experience, it helps if you use the alt attribute to
describe the image in a form that less ambiguous than a caption (and its
location, unless you use Web standard). Other than that, the amount of
images and their files names matter. Use hyphens and include descriptive
words in the image filenames. I have actually had a decrease in referrals
from Google Images recently. Last months it comfortably exceeded 1000 a
day.
^

One of many typos. Oopsie.

That pretty well covers it. Play around with the alt attribute and
remember that logical naming conventions apply.

Just some additional observations :

I noticed that if there is content within the same web page that
supports the image's keyphrase then the image seems to get a relevancy
boost.

I sometimes wonder whether having links to images increases the image's
postions in the image SERPs. I haven't found a need to experiment with
that yet.

It definitely helps. Anchor text in images is the reason my name somehow got
associated with a guy lifting a bounder (due to a single time that I linked
to that image before my full name appeared). Moreover, I used to have many
hit from Google Images with the phrase 'little sister'. The image filename
did not contain the phrase, but the link that pointed it had the anchor text
'little sister'.

Best wishes,

Roy

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On 2 Jul 2006 02:01:28 -0700, markbiernat (AT) yahoo (DOT) com wrote:

I have noticed that google image search generates a lot ot traffic,
even more than 6 months ago for my sites, sometimes more than yahoo or
msn normal text searches. Is there a way to get your images to the
top/first page of google images seach? Thank you
Mark

Surround them with text that's related to the term you want them to be
ranked for and call the image that term also.

BB
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How you can do that? to Surround them with tet?


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On 2 Jul 2006 08:37:11 -0700, "pop" <customer_support (AT) elakbar (DOT) net>
wrote:

How you can do that? to Surround them with tet?
Presumably they'll be on a page? Make sure the text on the page is on

a subject relevant to the picture. Don't go putting a picture of
Kylie in her knickers on a page all about ball-bearing manufacture in
the Balkans. Or vice-versa.

BB
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"canadafred" <canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I sometimes wonder whether having links to images increases the
image's postions in the image SERPs. I haven't found a need to
experiment with that yet.

Some time ago I had a link (a href) to an image on another site, and when
the image showed up in Google Images, it had my page as reference :-D.

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John Bokma wrote:

"canadafred" <canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

I sometimes wonder whether having links to images increases the
image's postions in the image SERPs. I haven't found a need to
experiment with that yet.

Some time ago I had a link (a href) to an image on another site, and when
the image showed up in Google Images, it had my page as reference :-D.

Hmm, Roy was saying something about that earlier too. Sounds like there
could be some good applications to this. I would imagine too that this
could be manipulated as an SEO technique somehow that some porn sites
must be able to exploit.

I have a few fishing and hunting pictures that rank highly in image
searches, although the traffic they generate to the web site is a poor
visitor compared to a keyphrase arriver.

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On 2 Jul 2006 21:42:47 -0700, "priya" <vijaibabucfa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

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