When running your web site don't forget about what on-site images could do for your web page. The attached graphic shows the incoming visits to interfacebus.com from people using Google's image search.
The incoming hits are low, but they seem to be constant. Perhaps around 5 hits a-day in early 2006 to 20 a-day by the end of 2007. So not only text brings in site visitors, but an attached pic may also. Any way, incoming hits are good, and most graphics shown on interfacebus are located on another site to conserve server bandwidth.
The total visits due to image hits are 8,441 for the last two years. Yes, I know the site receives that amount of traffic in one day, but these are still new visits. I noted that the visits are increasing too. ~ Just to forget that people may also find your site via a posted image.....
Just another way to optimize your site for search engines, by letting them find your page with a posted image or graphic.
See also SEO Tactics and Visits from Image Searches. 6/22/09
Chart; Image referrals per day.
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4 comments:
Oh, I spent a few hours tonight adding some pictures to a number of blog postings that did not have an attached pic file ~ ya never know. Plus a pic seems to make the blog posting more interesting.....
Good tip, thank you. Any specific requirements for those images to bring traffic, e.g. image file has to have you site name included?
No, but you really need to consider the name of the pic so that it complements the picture and the page it resides on.
Use words that people would search on, while still describing the graphic correctly.
The attached graphic only indicates incoming hits from 'images.google.com', but when you take into account "dot" countries the hits/visits are twice what is shown [.uk, .de, .it, .fr and so on].
It's about 60 incoming hits a-day. Or about 21,636 visits over the last two years.
Add to that the people that find this blog via an image search and then go over to interfacebus.com....
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