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.
Kevin Gibbons is Founder/Director of Strategy at SEOptimise. Kevin is well known within the search industry as a blogger for sites such as Search Engine Land, Econsultancy and Search Engine Watch. Kevin is also a frequent SEO speaker at a number of conferences including Search Marketing Expo (SMX), Search Engine Strategies (SES), a4uexpo, SAScon and BrightonSEO.
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.
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.
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?
Wow..
I didn’t imagine that Google image can get so much traffic..
yeah and it was proven for me., mostly of my traffic came from image.,and it helps me a lot.,