Are you having a lot of traffic from Google Images?

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This is weird,

I have several different websites, different niches, and recently, about 3 or 4 weeks ago, I am receiving a lot of traffic from Google Images. I don't understand why?

Is this happening to you too?

Some of you could say "Who cares! it is traffic!" but it is a very bad traffic. The Bouncing Rate is huge, and the average time spent on site is 5 seconds.

Any clue?

Thanks!
#google #images #lot #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    Nope.. not a single hit!
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  • Profile picture of the author Miguel Oliveira
    I have a page with quite a lot of traffic from google images. Because the images in that page are actually explaining processes most visitors end up reading at least the section where the image is. So, in my case traffic from Google images is actually helping
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    Yes, I get it. But I just ignore it because, as you said, the visitor is usually not a good prospect.

    I believe you can block it in Webmaster Tools.

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  • Profile picture of the author mark z
    It mostly comes from good optimized images on your site.
    However, as you already noticed it is mostly kind of junk traffic.
    Even then I do not suggest to block it as it benefits your overall ranking.
    So it can help your organic keyword positioning in long-term.
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I had one site that I sold that was mostly traffic from Google images and lots of it and it converted very well.
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  • Profile picture of the author debra
    I get a butt load of traffic to some of the images on one particular site.

    I got 159 hits yesturday from google for the images.

    I'm still trying to figure out a way to monitize that traffic.

    Any ideas? I'm willing to do some testing.
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  • Profile picture of the author monitorit
    i was getting about 30 hits a day for months on a tattoo website but they never converted.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fox30
    Yes!...I am getting a ton of traffic on a domain that I have for sale just because of the images and some keywords I threw in. No content at all
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      Last month, I had 94k hits on an image on one of my sites.

      I've tried monetizing it. Months ago, partly based on suggestions from here, I replaced the image with an animated GIF that has an advertising message with the website URL. Nothing.

      It just seems to be wasted bandwidth. I think I'm at the point where I'm tired of paying extra for exceeding my bandwidth allotment and not getting anything for it. I think I'm probably going to be better off just blocking that traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author francof
    It depends how you're monetizing the site they land on I guess. If you use CPM ad networks for a content then it's good... if it's a site where you're trying to sell something, then in most cases it's probably mostly useless traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    If all of your images are in a single folder, you can also block Google from seeing them with:

    Disallow: /images

    ...in your robots file. "/images" bing your images folder name, of course.

    Seems to work well. I do have a few images that are in a subfolder inside the images folder that are being indexed though...weird.

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