Mysterious Google Image Search Referrer '/imgres'

[LocoDice]

I have started out late 2009 with a test blog to start learning all about getting traffic.

It is a hotels site that features pictures from hotels. I have been a bit cheeky and linked to images from other sites (however I have referenced them in the source and with a link).

Anyway, if we can leave this aside because it is not the key issue right now.

I'm trying to develop traffic. And I've been working slowly but surely on Backlinks and other strategies, and slowly but surely over time I am starting to get a small increase in visitors.

However, one of the major traffic sources I'm not sure about. There is a referrer in Google Analytics called '/imgres'.

It doesn't really help me very much because it doesn't tell me specifically what images were viewed, or where these searches came in from. I've tried looking at other options around and can't seem to make neither head nor tail of it.

If this is a way to get traffic, great. But I can't monitor it and therefore manage it.

Anybody know anything I could look up about this?

[PascalSundhar]

I have also getting such mysterious image traffic. I don't know as you.

But I can tell one thing, it should be worthless traffic. It could be image searchers who want to add image in their blogs as we do.

[LocoDice]

I think it's always dangerous to assume what they are doing unless you can keep an eye on it.

It depends on what the space you are in, but I'd like to know what these people are doing either way.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Is there a better way to tag images or something?

[xnice]

I think good tag images with properly keyword. It will work but I am not sure how to increase of them. My traffic is almost come from images also.

[paulgl]

There's nothing nefarious about it.

Do a search an image search on google.

Put your cursor over the image. The url to the image is
something like: google.com/imgres?imgurl=yata yata yata

It's the url when clicking from the search pages.

In fact, any link from the search results may show a referrer similar to that.

Paul