Sorry if this is dicussed already,

but what are the tricks to dominating google images search?

list them here if you have some

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I would like to know that too.Awaiting for replies.

I am working on that for the company I work for. Mostly, using long tail keyword G Search and G Image Search, downloading, and then modifiying the image name some, then upload under our Flickr and Picasa accounts. Also, all blog entries have at least one if not three pictures with longtail keywords. These are uploaded to our hosting account.

Setting up a image marketing linkwheel would help, as well, I just haven't had the time to do that yet.

Nothing black hat about that, sorry, but basic stuff if you didn't already know it. I'd be interested to hear more, of course.

The most important tip:

Rename your images file to long tail keywords you want to target

Eg: long tail kw1 :a big hairy gorilla
long tail kw 2: big gorilla with hair

rename your image to: a-big-hairy-gorilla.jpg
remane title and alt text to big gorilla with har

Do this with all the images on your site.

Thats a basic outline of how I dominate images.
( ong tail keyword research is critical)

You can also upload the images to all file sharing/image
sites and ensure that you WATERMARK these images
with your URL

And what about one-word keyword.Doing this mentioned above didn't push my images to first page targeting low competition keyword.It must be more to do,I think or...

On sites which I over-optimise (i.e. build too many links to and get sandboxed), I tend to naturally dominate image results. It seems that it's just based on the number of links, with no spam filter.

There is a way to fix it on wordpress so that when someone views your image, it removes the google images frame and takes thwem directly to your site instead. I forget exactly what it is though, google it.

I am running wordpress sites and I just make sure each image as its post title as alt text. Did it for about two months. Now gg image referrals have outraced that from gg search.

The plugin you need for that purpose is named seo-image:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/

The only challenge on using this trick is on those post without an image. I get around it by inserting stock photos from a close subject theme. And then it incurs a task of building an inventory of stock photos on different subjects LOL.

Xsitepro II does all this and 100 times more...

How do you montize with gi?

The surrounding text, if any, and if relevant, might help as well.

you can also backlink to the image with the keyword and thatll knock u up

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There is traffic but I don't know how to make $$$ from it.

Do you get much traffic from google images?

Yes, quite a bit and growing.

thanks for the help guys!

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I was getting 3k uniques from hijacking someones image on accident. It ranked number 1 when you searched for this person. I hotlinked the image on my site. In google's search the site I linked from was listed as the url but it was sending it to my site. It lasted for a few weeks. I see hijacked images all the time. If you look at the url for the image it will list 2 sites a lot of times. Here is an example. This site Techwoo.c0m (sorry if it is yours) hijacks images and gets most of it's traffic from it. This is the hijacked picture link that has the number one result for Gina Carano.

hxxp://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://ginacaranomaxim.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/gina-carano-3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://techwoo.com/gina-carano-has-a-pretty-hairstyle/&h=500&w=333&sz=125&tbnid=t2d1mTcjxdUxCM:&tbnh=130 &tbnw=87&prev=/images%3Fq%3DGina%2BCarano&hl=en&usg=__3eH8An0Cl5Q 7GsBiosDX0Ebu8TU=&ei=z0O1Su3kJpOsMLnukNoO&sa=X&oi= image_result&resnum=4&ct=image

Looks like it uses the site that is hosting the image's PR but when you hotlink it all the traffic gets sent to your site instead. I've been trying to figure this out for months now after I did it by accident. I had the original sites url in my ALT tag but I think google changed something. All of my images were dropped from google search but it might have been because I was getting 3k hits a day on a blog that was up for less than a month. I'm not sure on how to get it back. Any advice would rock.

Ive heard good things about Xsitepro II

like everyone said before long tail I mean the keyword you want t rank for and the ALT text is very relevant also make sure your pcitures are in gif format it seems like those rank better because picture weight is low.

keep in mind that some back links to the pictures will help also if you know what I mean.


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Check this way of optimizing your images for Google

Also be carefull: Images traffic can be very destructive: one day, I ranked number 4 for Britney Spears and got 40000 UV A DAY
Be sure to be able to handle such a massive amount of traffic.

The best way to monetize image traffic is the hated Zango: I made $XXXX a year with them using only image traffic.

Hope this helps.

Anybody knows how to rename jpg pics in batch?

What I mean I have a folder with all the pics with the usual example dsc001, dsc002,dsc003, etc
and I have a text file or xls, csv or whatever with a list of keywords,

I would like to rename each pics with one of the keywords.

Each pics should be renamed with a different keyword or name, nothing else to change.

I googled a lot and used a few utilities, but I cannot make works or I am stupid.

Please Help

good tips guys thanks

Sounds like an iMacros thing...'take first picture in list, then first keyword in csv, change filename to keyword, increment counter and repeat'.

I've used rename utilities before but I don't know of one that will take names from a list and use them to change the filenames.

Sounds like a great BH utility!

What would be better is a WP plugin that would take all images in Gallery X and rotate/rename through thousands of longtail keywords in List Y.

One thing that massively helped the images on my WP sites to rank was to submit a sitemap.xml to Google directly. Google loves it when you do their job for them!

You can do this directly with WP plugins, submitting through Google itself, or my favorite - Google Webmaster Tools, which allows you to set up tons of sites and manage various aspects (including submitting sitemaps) through a control panel.

Free.

Google it to get the URL.

Thanks Roberto,

I am trying to make a macro but my skills are very basic.

I am trying but doesnt get the name from the csv and change to the jpg image.

By the way yes my idea is to subsitude the image name with keywords list related to my niche.

To see If I can get more traffic from google images, and a better indexing in google.
I know how to change in bulk, example all the jpg in one folder, with one keyword, but the risult will be keyword.jpg, keyword2.jpg,etc., same keyword for all the pics with added a sequential number.

see if I can come out with something.

is this what you are looking for?
hxxp://www*sphider*eu/forum/read.php?3,2640
i wonder if G bot will set you up as imgrefurl?

It has been a little more than 2 months since Google unveiled their new Universal Search product to the search community at large. What have we seen since then? Hitwise reports that Google Maps and Youtube have seen significant increases in traffic from google.com. Google Images and Google News have declined slightly, as they lost their valuable positions within Google’s “onebox” results at the top of the SERPs. I have spoken with a lot of people who are concerned about their hard-won organic rankings being crowded out by several different types of search results on one page. Frankly, I would be worried too if all of my eggs were in one basket.
The challenges presented by Universal Search are only outweighed by the potential benefits to savvy online marketers. Universal Search, or some variation of it, seems to be the future of how search engine results will be displayed. Knowing that, here are some tips for you to take advantage of this growing trend by optimizing your content for the various channels that we see appearing in the new Universal SERPs. We will cover 1 search vertical per day, so check back tomorrow for the next installment.


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Wasnt there a product shared about dominating google image results? This was what I'm searching for but good info on this thread also.

There's a WSO on Warrior Forum - Google Image Ca$h.