Blind Ape Seo

Now, young grasshoper, that you know how to get image search traffic to your site, you should focus on a worthier goal:

Targeted image traffic

I mentioned before, that I got one of my blogs onto the first image SERP for the term coffee.

Q: Did it help much?
A: Not really.

Keep in mind to get targeted image searches:

Optimize all your images that you want to appear in the image search and only those.

DON’Ts

• DON’T Give attributes to navigation images
  • Maybe even go as far as to name them something like navi_01.jpg, or menu_lower.gif
• DON’T give attributes / names to images NOT related to your keywords
  • If you have a cat picture on your ringtone page, name it pic01 .jpg, skip the title and alt tag

DO’s

• DO Give  EXTRA LOVING to  pictures that  are  related to your  niche
• DO Get high quality pictures, buy them if necessary!
• DO Don’t just call it smartphone.jpg, call it palm-treo-680.jpg
• DO Move some text describing the image into the same TD as the image (thanks, Eli)
• DO Don’t forget alt tags and title text
• DO Think about moving your affiliate link into a lightbox.

Eli has been so kind to link to my image search traffic. now it is time to repay the favor.

Google Images - Checkmate

His article is a great companion to the old simian’s and goes into a bit more technical detail. A definite must read.