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