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Targeting image search traffic

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.

4 Comments so far

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  3. Thomas March 11th, 2009 9:40 am

    Hi, nice Article. But you should change the 1. Link in your text from http://blindapeseo.wordpress.com/2007/03/05/optimizing-image-search-traffic/ to http://blindapeseo.com/seo/optimizing-image-search-traffic
    Or on the old WP Page either.

    Kind regards.

  4. emp March 12th, 2009 12:27 am

    Thanks for that. Fixed now.

    ::emp::

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