Why you shouldn’t ignore Google Images
Last week Hitwise reported that Google Image Search accounts for 6.82% of Google properties.
Here’s the top 20 Google domains from January 2008:
Considering Google’s huge market share, especially in the UK, 6.82% is a lot of searches! So maybe you should start optimising your kitten images for additional Google traffic.
I think you are completely right here Kevin, for me Google images has for a long time been a very powerful tool in driving visits to my own sites. For one site Google image search is consistently delivering between 25% and 30% of all site visits, and in some months will provide more traffic than the Google organic results.
Comment by John Blackmore — February 7, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Webmaster are not aware of the fact that google images can increase the traffic on their site by 20% to 50% or even more if they optimize the images in a proper way. The above statistics will definately help them. Good work.
Comment by Raman Shukla — February 8, 2008 @ 6:38 am
Nice,
I’ll conceder it..
I have another question, if a website is more Google Image friendly, will it also be helpful in the regular Google search?
Comment by itay — February 23, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Wow..
I didn’t imagine that Google image can get so much traffic..
Comment by חנות סקס — February 23, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
yeah and it was proven for me., mostly of my traffic came from image.,and it helps me a lot.,
Comment by crexatalyst — February 25, 2008 @ 7:52 pm