How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing

tim_buchalka · 10-17-2008, 07:11 PM

Hi all,

I post this on my blog, so please go there to get the full details if you want, but I will summarize it here for you guys.

1. I put a hub up on hubpages in January and forgot about it.

2. Somehow didn't record the details in my excel spreadsheet so it dropped off my radar.

3. Found it again this month, and since January the hub has been viewed 24,356 times.

4. Very simple hub, about 3 images, 1 video (not even mine), and a 600 word article. With a couple of links to a money page.

5. Shocking confession? It turns out the links to the money pages were not really valid (they pointed to another website I no longer use).

6. End result: I've wasted 24,000 visitors who might have bought something.

7. Early the other morning, I woke up with a start, suddenly remembering the reason I had set this website up in the first place.

8. I'd set it up for Images, and specifically getting traffic from people searching for images.

9. 65% of the traffic was from images.google.com and around 8% from other countries including images.google.ca, images.google.de, and images.google.ie, and images.google.hu !

10. So around 73% of 24,000 visitors (approx 17,500) made it to the page searching for images! How is that for a traffic strategy?

Of course, some of these people may have just displayed the image in the image search and not actually clicked through to the hub (this would still register as a visit) but early testing seems to indicate a decent percentage are clicking through.

11. Now you would think these people would not be interested in anything but images, right?

12. Wrong! In 24 hours, the website has made $15 in adsense.

13. Not a great deal sure, but 73% of the visitors are image searchers!

Time to look more into image search traffic strategies!

Something for your traffic arsenal guys

Cheers

Tim

LeannaLuck · 10-17-2008, 07:24 PM

Ok, wow..that is food for thought. I mean I hardly ever search for images and I never thought much about it. There are really that many people just doing image searches?

tim_buchalka · 10-17-2008, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by LeannaLuck

Ok, wow..that is food for thought. I mean I hardly ever search for images and I never thought much about it. There are really that many people just doing image searches?

Yeah I agree, it's not something I have a need to do much, but the traffic stats are there showing it.

Definitely going to invest some more time with this.

LeannaLuck · 10-17-2008, 07:47 PM

Well I appreciate you sharing this. Hey any way to pull in traffic is a valuable tip!

Leanna

Raych · 10-17-2008, 08:02 PM

Does it matter where you got the images from originally...they can be the purchased variety, right? From Bigstock photo, or similar, not necessarily your own original images?

oortcloud · 10-17-2008, 11:21 PM

This is mind blowing that you posted this today, I was digging through my logs last night and found some image traffic from google and I wondered if anyone had put together some type of traffic product that tries to capitalize this, very strange coincidence.
I wonder if there are any optimization seo kind of strategies for images. I guess there is a whole science that could be born just like web page search, hot keywords, optimization etc. and since nobody has probably tried to harness this traffic, google might be a little lax and it might be quite easy to manipulate ?

Chris Monty · 10-17-2008, 11:35 PM

Interesting that you bring this up tonight. I have just started playing around with Hubpages and they seem pretty powerful.

gagan · 10-18-2008, 12:31 AM

That shows how much searches are made for images. But I guess it will be tough to convert that kind of traffic.

tim_buchalka · 10-18-2008, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raych

Does it matter where you got the images from originally...they can be the purchased variety, right? From Bigstock photo, or similar, not necessarily your own original images?

These photo's happened to be a combination of original and bought.

Can't see how it would make a difference.

Quote:

Originally Posted by oortcloud

This is mind blowing that you posted this today, I was digging through my logs last night and found some image traffic from google and I wondered if anyone had put together some type of traffic product that tries to capitalize this, very strange coincidence.
I wonder if there are any optimization seo kind of strategies for images. I guess there is a whole science that could be born just like web page search, hot keywords, optimization etc. and since nobody has probably tried to harness this traffic, google might be a little lax and it might be quite easy to manipulate ?

Yes it is definately worth investigating further. I've never spent much time looking at hubpages stats, to see how far they drill down, and then thinking about optimizing a page for image search, etc.

Stay tuned, after I have had time to figure it out further I'll report back my findings.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris Monty

Interesting that you bring this up tonight. I have just started playing around with Hubpages and they seem pretty powerful.

Yes I always get great rankings and traffic with hubpages, but never before with images (with these numbers).

Quote:

Originally Posted by gagan

That shows how much searches are made for images. But I guess it will be tough to convert that kind of traffic.

Well that was my initial thoughts, but am getting clickthroughs (adsense and to my money page).

Going to leave it for a few days, then look at putting up some CPA offers.

Cheers

Tim

10-17-2008, 07:11 PM	#1
tim_buchalka Aussie SEO Geek War Room Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: , , Australia. Posts: 211 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 3 Thanked 39 Times in 24 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing Hi all, I post this on my blog, so please go there to get the full details if you want, but I will summarize it here for you guys. 1. I put a hub up on hubpages in January and forgot about it. 2. Somehow didn't record the details in my excel spreadsheet so it dropped off my radar. 3. Found it again this month, and since January the hub has been viewed 24,356 times. 4. Very simple hub, about 3 images, 1 video (not even mine), and a 600 word article. With a couple of links to a money page. 5. Shocking confession? It turns out the links to the money pages were not really valid (they pointed to another website I no longer use). 6. End result: I've wasted 24,000 visitors who might have bought something. 7. Early the other morning, I woke up with a start, suddenly remembering the reason I had set this website up in the first place. 8. I'd set it up for Images, and specifically getting traffic from people searching for images. 9. 65% of the traffic was from images.google.com and around 8% from other countries including images.google.ca, images.google.de, and images.google.ie, and images.google.hu ! 10. So around 73% of 24,000 visitors (approx 17,500) made it to the page searching for images! How is that for a traffic strategy? Of course, some of these people may have just displayed the image in the image search and not actually clicked through to the hub (this would still register as a visit) but early testing seems to indicate a decent percentage are clicking through. 11. Now you would think these people would not be interested in anything but images, right? 12. Wrong! In 24 hours, the website has made $15 in adsense. 13. Not a great deal sure, but 73% of the visitors are image searchers! Time to look more into image search traffic strategies! Something for your traffic arsenal guys Cheers Tim
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10-17-2008, 07:24 PM	#2
LeannaLuck Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 53 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing Ok, wow..that is food for thought. I mean I hardly ever search for images and I never thought much about it. There are really that many people just doing image searches?

10-17-2008, 07:47 PM	#4
LeannaLuck Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 53 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing Well I appreciate you sharing this. Hey any way to pull in traffic is a valuable tip! Leanna

10-17-2008, 08:02 PM	#5
Raych HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: , , . Posts: 170 Thanks: 4 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	Re: How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing Does it matter where you got the images from originally...they can be the purchased variety, right? From Bigstock photo, or similar, not necessarily your own original images?

10-17-2008, 11:21 PM	#6
oortcloud Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 70 Thanks: 1 Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Re: How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing This is mind blowing that you posted this today, I was digging through my logs last night and found some image traffic from google and I wondered if anyone had put together some type of traffic product that tries to capitalize this, very strange coincidence. I wonder if there are any optimization seo kind of strategies for images. I guess there is a whole science that could be born just like web page search, hot keywords, optimization etc. and since nobody has probably tried to harness this traffic, google might be a little lax and it might be quite easy to manipulate ?

10-17-2008, 11:35 PM	#7
Chris Monty I'd Rather Be Blogging War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: MD, USA Posts: 439 Blog Entries: 201 Thanks: 6 Thanked 16 Times in 13 Posts Contact Info	Re: How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing Interesting that you bring this up tonight. I have just started playing around with Hubpages and they seem pretty powerful.
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10-18-2008, 12:31 AM	#8
gagan Warrior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: New Delhi Posts: 27 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: How I Received 17,500 Visitors From Image Search Without Knowing That shows how much searches are made for images. But I guess it will be tough to convert that kind of traffic.