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200+ Hits a Day From Alt Tags!!

by Mangozoom
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I have a mini site about a certain genre of movies which I have not updated for months.
It has 4 pages which makes me a few bucks a day on Adsense and then a very nice contribution through Amazon sales.

Check it out most of the traffic is coming through picture search on Google .. I am talking over 90%. This is not just for one picture but across several.

None of this would be possible if I had not done good keyword research and then thorough on-site SEO including putting keyword rich alt tags in each image.

The alt tags alone are generating over 200 plus hits on auto-pilot

John
#200 #alt #day #hits #tags
  • Profile picture of the author Aleksejs Zuravlovs
    Wow, that`s a lot for pictures! Congrats!
    My alt text isn`t recognized by spiderfx-lite, though I have that on every picture, that`s really strange..
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  • Profile picture of the author TallyDon
    how does the traffic from pictures convert lead/sale-wise?
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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    Hi TallyDon

    I have not looked at cost per lead which is bad I know.

    Adsense CTR from Jan 29 to today average is 14.44%, the highest is 28% lowest just over 7% which I am pleased with to be honest.

    Sales come through Amazon which is just nice and steady.

    This site is a little precious gem to me, it justs keeps going in the background. The aim is to have 100 like it producing truly passive income.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author nettech
    Thats an incredibly high CTR. I have several sites that also rank very high for Google image search and aren't anywhere to be found for any of my keywords. They get on average between 20-40 uniques per day and make me a few $'s. CTR can range from between 2-5% although I have seen the occasional 10%+.

    Well done
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    Zaheer

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  • Profile picture of the author JackPowers
    Yeah, but the new Google image search makes it even harder to get the visitor to stay on your page. Try it out, you only see the image and have to click to even see the website. Unless you use a frame breaker of course.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mangozoom
    Okay guys not claiming to be a guru on this stuff.

    I think why the click thru is because it is in a movie niche and the visitors are fans of the genre so the response is exceptional.

    CTR is so high simply because of the way I lay out my site ... its optimised for Adsense.

    John
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    Please do this: Why & How to Jump Out of Iframes of Google Translate & Images
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  • Profile picture of the author Feriorwh
    I have seen this on a lot of my blogs as well. I always make sure to do some keyword research before posting anything and make sure to use the proper keywords for the image file name as well as the alt tag. I seem to have no problem getting the first through 5th position on Google image search for these difficult to rank for images and that does bring a lot of hits to my site.

    Now the downside is that these are mostly visits to the image file itself, so the bounce rate is pretty high. And I have yet to figure out a successful way of getting people to get back to the actual article when they are done looking at the image.
    I'm thinking possibly a 301 to the actual article URL since the image URL is now indexed?
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    • Profile picture of the author McBrett
      The question is are these people actually looking at your site... or are they downloading the pic and leaving?

      Also, what is your website about (if you don't mind sharing).

      I could see celebrity photo sites pulling in huge numbers with this strategy. Everybody loves them Britney Spears pics.
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      www.500aMonth.com - This is my blog.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    Not only do you have a high bounce rate but people hotlink those images too. So, use this to, to prevent hotlinking: How to prevent hotlinking and bandwidth theft | Swollen Pickles How to prevent hotlinking and bandwidth theft | Me fail English? That's unpossible!
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  • Profile picture of the author clickbumped
    Impressive, you must have stumbled across a solid niche for a site, I've rarely been able to bring in traffic through pictures. Good find you should squeeze as much out of this as possible!
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    *I am not Scott Blanchard. I just thought this name was cool. =p

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  • Profile picture of the author eurekaa
    I have like 1000 less/more daily visits ( generated by image google searches ) , but when i check alexa ranking its like Million +
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