Perfectly Optimized Google Image Code
<td>Keyword<br>
<p><img s rc=”images/keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />
keyword</p>
</td>
Top Determined Factors
1) Keyword in same table cell as image.
2) Keyword below or above image in DIV or floating DIV.
3) Keyword in ALT tag.
4) Keyword in image name and image meta file summary.
5) Keyword in same paragraph as image.
Acceptable Code
<div style=”float:right”><img s rc=”image/keyword.jpg” /><br>keyword in more than 4 words and less than 10.</div>
<p>text blah blah</p>
Factors In Order Of Apparent Importance
1) Factors 2 and 5 equal
2) Factor 1
3) Factor 4
4) Factor 3
*Factor 3 assumed because it showed no distinguishable results in controlled tests.
Automatically Remove The Google Frame
<script language=”JavaScript1.1″ type=”text/JavaScript”>
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);</script>
Perfect Sizes
Small: 150×150 or smaller.
Medium: Larger than 150 x 150 and smaller than 500 x 500.
Large: 500 x 500 and larger.
Google Image Traffic Redirection
.HTACCESS File
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http:\/\/images\.google\. [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.$ cgi-bin/redirect.cgi [R,NC]
*If google images is sending you traffic you don’t want, you can use this code to redirect to a targeted advertiser. I have an affiliate site that sells lingerie. It gets tons of porn related traffic from Google images. They usually just realize it’s not a porn site and they quickly leave. So I looked at the most popular keywords used in Google Images traffic they send me and found a related porn sponsor and started redirecting all the users to my affiliate link. What do you know? Conversions!
Update: I didn’t even realize this, but there is a great write up by EMP over at Blind Ape SEO. Worth checking out.
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I generally forget alt tag
Thanks…
me too,..never know how important tags are until i noticed all my codes are jumbled together
me too, but i plase some alt for SEO, but not in all images.
very useful if you aim to be indexed with your images!
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Awesome Eli. Great info.
Brilliant! It took me a while to figure out what you were doing. I can be slow sometimes. Well, most of the time.
would removing the frame have any penalization?
You think Eli would post a tip, and then make it not work with the last step? c’mon
Actually it is a possibility. It won’t ban you from the engine but google images may block your images if you just outright use the frame buster. I know it works with Yahoo but there is rare instances where google will temporarily stop showing your images until you remove the code. For this case I recommend you remove the code (reinclusion should be almost immediate) then check for the referrer before breaking the frame.
awesome post, you always writing about things ive never heard of. keep em coming
Im going to try your tweaks right meow…
What about title tags on the images? Do these not add any benfit to Google Image searches?
I couldn’t get any conclusive results with the title tags. Perhaps someone could prove me wrong on that.
I like label tags on images, but with titles, alts, and labels, you could be spamming.
Why xsrc and not just src?
xsrc does not seem to do anything in Firefox.
Google have really changed since then
The xsrc=�?images/keyword.jpg�? and mce_src=�?images/keyword.jpg�? are just wordpress being incredibly gay. its really src=”images/keyword.jpg”
Gay? As in fabulous?
How long does it normally take to start seeing traffic?
Once I added an image to one of my pages and the next day it was in top10 in the G image search.
Thank you for the article. Gold… pure gold. Keep them coming
I am new to SEO, but I really love your sight. Hard hitting facts, as opposed to fluff. I like that it is technical - make people think it through, and you will keep and audiance of people who are willing to do the work to get results.
Really Eli, how do you cope the adoration of the masses? The burden of such fame and admiration must be simply unbearable
That said, this is a cool tip. For some reason my PAD site I started after reading your Link Laundering post gets TONS of google image hits.
Cheers (as usual)
Making use of Google Images traffic
Saw a great set of tips over at Blue Hat SEO today about optimizing for (and getting some value from) Google image search traffic. I’ll skip the optimizing part right now, but the other part is golden. First, add a
I have been thinking about adding a module to my site builder that adds keyword optimized images to each page. I think this gives me more reason to do it, man you really make me think Eli, thanks for the great site!
Hi Eli,
Been lurking around here for a while now. Your blog makes excellent reading, to the point, effective techniques.
I thought I’d pass a comment that might be helpful to some people here. Your factor 3 in ranking (alt text), I can verify this does actually help with rankings for images and normal serps. I have an image hosting site which provides html for our hosted images. This gets me around 100 new links per day and if I change the alt text I give out I can get the site/images to rank for different keywords.
Keep the great info coming.
Mark
Great post about google images
thank you
I have a porn video site that has the usual large numbers of screen caps. I was getting nearly a thousand Google Images hits a day.
2 weeks ago I added the script that automatically removes the google frame (found elsewhere)…
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);
Interesting, almost immediately my Google Images traffic dropped to under 20 per day. After nearly 2 weeks I removed that script from site. The next day my Google Images traffic returned.
Has anyone else every experienced anything similar to that?
btw … great image optimizing tips.
I have experience as a user, where there’s too many sites redirecting you to their spam; I immediately back out of those sites because I didn’t get what I was looking for.
Eli is spot on with this post. It always amazes me how quickly and how much traffic flows with Google Image search. I still toss the alts in there for good measure but as was said in the post it is not a huge factor.
Nice traffic recovery on the Lingerie site dude. The beaters can wreak havoc on e-commerce lingerie sites… Well played dude.
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Great stuff.
images/relatedkeyword/keyword.jpg should help too.
Eli, you might want to use NVU for writing your posts. Even Guy Kawasaki uses it on his blog.
Hello,
no problems with Google about this tactic ?
Sounds a little bit strange, that the Bot won’t see that ?
Regards
Frank
You didn’t mention hyperlinking the image to the image location. I have found that if you link the image so that it pops up in a small window or something, that this also helps the ranking in Google images as well as Yahoo.
Have you tested this yourself?
This is brilliant. It seems only logical, that this will work. I am testing it myself right now
Thanks, man
Nice post Eli!
But where do you get the images from? G, like other SEs, is certainly applying duplicate content filters to images, so using scraped images is not the answer. But, like using Markov for text, images can be automatically combined and modified to make them ‘unique’! A new dimension of BH: IMAGE SPAM!
Cute.. I was looking for ways to make my cliparts rank in google image search and I forgot on the keyword matching part. I did use alt tags but the heading and subheadings were not a keyword, rather a text like ‘click to download’. So I am off the get it changed. Thanks.
Lately I’ve been getting an increasing amount of traffic from Google Images, I think because of two reasons. 1: My site is getting more trusted by Google. 2: My site has a LOT of images.
So I might just use that code to remove the Google frame, hopefully it doesn’t hurt anything
Are these the only factors which are taken into account? Does google not take into account page title, incoming links etc?
But if you have, say, a thumbnail gallery with the same keyword under each image, how much is too much? Should the thumbnail title (in the same ) be changed, and leave the image name relevant?
Ya know I gotta say, the best results you can have with google images is to not try to trick them. The whole search system is nothing like the keyword search. It’s completely based off of thumbnail galleries and their traits. So if you just mimic the standard thumbnail gallery you should be fine in everyway.
Eli this is a great blog but you are missing out on the main tag that gets your image indexed in Google: A
By creating a link around your image and keyword you will ensure the image is crawled and gets better placement.
Keyword 1
keyword 4
hm that didn’t work - i’ll try using ascii characters:
<p><a href="/large-image.jpg" title="keyword"><img s rc=”images/keyword.jpg” alt=”keyword” />
keyword</a></p>
indeed. it is important to put the link to the actual full sized image in order to get the full sized version indexed but as far as factors go it technically isn’t one so I didn’t include it. I was trying to give the most simplistic example, which means no link to the full sized image because technically its not needed to get it indexed. But if you want to rank for the large and/or medium sized images yes of course you would want to link to the full sized because it wouldn’t naturally fit on the page.
Thanks for pointing that out though, its good information to know. I should of included it in the post.
I was wondering why I have some image traffic. If I will optimize all than I get even more traffic.
well this is something ive never heard of before!
Nice to have a feel of different hats
great post! thanks
i also use title tag on my image
it shows the keyword when mouse hover
Cool stuff
Sure ‘Digg-in’ all the cool tips to ‘Stumble’ here Eli’. keep rockin’ you beautiful crazy genius you.
We’ll see you around as always.
peace,
Mr. Seo Hat
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Love this post. I used this technique on one of my sites - it hasn’t sent me any traffic yet… but funnily enough I am picking up long tail from Google search for a term on the site related to the content in the images.
I never know what the exact terms are going to be that bring in the traffic. It’s good to have content that is “semantically related” to a keyword rather than just bombarding your pages with the exact keyword itself.
Hi
I’m currently working on images visibility (on my website - I’m professional photographer - 70% of my Google traffic is from Google Images, with an average number of 1000 visitors each day with 250 indexed images)
Are-you sure about metadata (IPTC) images consideration in Google Images ?… It’s an element I don’t take care at this day !
On the other hand, is the URL of the image file should be absolutly on the same domain ?…
Cordialy,
Cedric
Embarrassed to say it but this totally lost me (:
I like the idea of redirecting the traffic
What about adding a header tag in the same logical block as the image?
For instance:
Keyword
keyword
Since the HTML tags didn’t come through, I’ll explain. Basically replace the p tag with an h1 tag. Reflect.
I have noticed on most of my sites is that it takes a very long time for your images to show up within the google image searches. Anyone know any ways to speed this up?
I have a blog that posts images from a lot of other sites, I basically hotlink the thumbnails (because I’m too lazy to upload them to blogger.com), with a link to the original… and most of my traffic now comes from Google Images. It sends people to my site instead of to the original. I didn’t even do that on purpose!
I’m guessing whichever page optimizes the images best gets the traffic, whether the images originate from that domain or not. Which makes no logical sense. But I’m not complaining…
Very nice explanation eli..
Now i am going to start website on wallpapers with correctly optimized…
with image alt attributes..
thank you Eli..
I got a lot of referrals from google images, now I have learned how not to wast them, thank you, this is a very practical tip.
As always…very nice. I would be interested in the actual experiment and the time it took to get an image indexed.
This is totally new for me.. I have my site so i will try this to my site.. thanks 4 informing
Very Inspiring. You get the wheels turning in my head.
Thanks for this great article. We gonna consider it in our SEO activities.
Thanks Eli. Great article. You are an SEO machine!
Thanks for this nice article - You are the best!
OMG this worked a treat for my blog! I started this blog at the beginning of December 2008 and Google has just started indexing my images recently (and some are appearing on the first page of the image search results already!). Thanks heaps
Great SEO info. I have never heard about this. Thanks for the helpful SEO advice.
What if we put H1 inside the same as image? Is that still a well optimized image?
Awesome tips.
Nice image script.
This seems pretty simple. thanks.
Nice image.
I was thinking about trying to use google images for some SEO work. I’m not sure how well it would work though.
wow Image plus SEO
Nice tips, thank you very much!
Thanks … I’ll Try This !
WOW! great post! thanks!!!
There is everything that you can expect from a good post …………. Thanks
my website is purely made of images…
it will help me alot…
but i am afraid…
i dont want to get banned from google…
please tell me….
should i apply this method or not…
please help
Thanx man, that helped a lot!
sounds like black hat
maybe its worth a try
This would be a great way to keep people on your own site, surely we could just redirect them to our own homepage. I can’t help but feel google are scraping our images and not that bothered about delivering traffic to us from it.
Thanx man, that helped a lot!
cool tips! i will try it for my new wallpaper site
thanks for post, i have just start learning about this. image search brings amazing traffic!!
Thanks, this tutorial helps a lot optimized my product pages on my site
good tips, thanks
Actually it is a possibility. It won’t ban you from the engine but google images may block your images if you just outright use the frame buster. I know it works with Yahoo but there is rare instances where google will temporarily stop showing your images until you remove the code. For this case I recommend you remove the code (reinclusion should be almost immediate) then check for the referrer before breaking the frame.
Amazing Eli. Great information!!!
Thanks for this nice article - You are the best!
This is a very helpful post. Image optimization will boost your image in the SE results. We should not rely on the traffic from image optimization as most of the users search images just for the sake of images and no further information.
The image optimization techniques mentioned are great and thank you again for this wonderful post.
WOW, this really is a good seo tip by all means.
The information you provided was very useful. Because of your help, thank you
I was wondering why I have some image traffic. If I will optimize all than I get even more traffic.
Very nice explanation eli..
Now i am going to start website on wallpapers with correctly optimized…
with image alt attributes..
thank you Eli..
Very nice stuff! Thanx
Joe Cracker is a noob and a half.
Thanks for sharing your unique ideas.
You didn’t mention hyperlinking the image to the image location. I have found that if you link the image so that it pops up in a small window or something, that this also helps the ranking in Google images as well as Yahoo.
Have you tested this yourself?
Nice checkmate Mate! Great post as always.
Thanks for this nice article - You are the best!
very very useful info. you are so so great!
Very nice & useful stuff! Thanks!
Very clever article. Thought evoking to say the least. Thanks for the post.
Well prepared, however im not sure if this .htaccess code is working corectly.
Point number 5 is most important, Google give preference to those images which have keywords in text nearby.
Very clever article.
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I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!
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I do agree with all of the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too short for newbies. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post.
it’s great! thx
Nice checkmate Mate! Great post as always.
But I don’t like how you mess with wikipedia, I love wikipedia
keep it up
thanx
thank Very clever article. Thought evoking to say the least. Thanks for the post
great post! thanks.
Can you get much traffic from google image search?
Yes we can, thats why there are so many people doing it.
Nice image script. Thanks for the great help!
Are these the only factors which are taken into account? Does google not take into account page title, incoming links etc?
All the info regarding this you can find above
Nice image script. Thanks for the great help!
thank you brother
Nice image script.
Thats a great Script lol
thank you friend. nice work.
Do these not add any benfit to Google Image searches?
Eli is spot on with this post. It always amazes me how quickly and how much traffic flows with Google Image search. I still toss the alts in there for good measure but as was said in the post it is not a huge factor.
I just added this weblog to my feed reader, great stuff. Can’t get enough!
Can you get much traffic from google image thank
Eli is spot on with this post.
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Brilliant! It took me a while to figure out what you were doing. I can be slow sometimes. Well, most of the time.
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I agree, thanks for sharing this with us. And to all out there, good luck to all!
Keep up the great work, Eli. These are brilliant and truly unique ideas you have here.
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Pretty awesome cool. Nice work! I’ll test it out with a few of my sites and see what happens.
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Pretty awesome cool. Nice work! I’ll test it out with a few of my sites and see what happens.
I agree, thanks for sharing this with us. good luck
Thanks for this article, very interesting.
LOL… that goes our images
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These steps would really be helpful for optimizing a site. I will try to do this one. Good thing I saw this post.
Very simple. Thanks.
what is befints of the keywords site over google adwords. and yahoo overtuer
Pretty awesome cool. Nice work! I’ll test it out with a few of my sites and see what happens.
Google have really changed since then
me too,..never know how important tags are until i noticed all my codes are jumbled together
thanks
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Great article
thanks
Thanks for the help on breaking down the ad analytics. Very good and to the point.
i’ve been talking about ways to improve rank in aim chat rooms tech sections. the gurus have some good advice, like quality versus quantity in commenting
I have work with image in my website. and I know how important to put ALT in the code.
Image also impartant in SEO. don’t forget put your keyword in ALT..maybe someone search image in your keyword
checkmate indeed!
Optimized Google Image Code is always a good thing
If google images is sending you traffic you don’t want, you can use this code to redirect to a targeted advertiser. I have an affiliate site that sells lingerie
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Is all this info still relevant in 2013?
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Thank you a lot for the advise, I will use it fore sure!
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If google images is sending you traffic you don’t want, you can use this code to redirect to a targeted advertiser.
auto transport leads Google Images traffic they send me and found a related porn sponsor and started redirecting all the users to my affiliate link. What do you know? Conversions!