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Some of your site's photos must be near the top of the results for keywords in Google's image search.
Unfortunately, the traffic doesn't usually convert to sales. It's generally folks looking for ideas - although wedding work does seem to have a much lower bounce rate.
Last year, I read a leading SEO say that the folks who primarily use image search are generally looking to lift and copy photos for free.
Unfortunately, the traffic doesn't usually convert to sales. It's generally folks looking for ideas - although wedding work does seem to have a much lower bounce rate.
Last year, I read a leading SEO say that the folks who primarily use image search are generally looking to lift and copy photos for free.
Rock,
You need to set up a robot.txt file...
Example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /Images/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /db/
This tells the SE to not index your stats, images and etc.
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You need to set up a robot.txt file...
Example:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /stats/
Disallow: /Images/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /db/
This tells the SE to not index your stats, images and etc.
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Thanks Cathy.
I tried some simple searches (flowers, roses, etc) and didn't see any pics from our site but at the end of Sept, I changed the pic on my front page to my store shot and it seemed to decrease the number of these 'image' search results for a week or so but now they're back stronger than ever! I have found that these hits don't turn into orders (at least at the time of the hits).
An example of the tracking results -
images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.atkinson-flowers.com/usrimage/logo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.atkinson-flowers.com/&h=378&w=300&sz=17&hl=en&start=181&um=1&tbnid=bmeusVSmd8fitM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflowers%26start%3D180%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN[/url]
Funny thing is that the rose pic on the top of the results page is the one I used on my front page until end of Sept.
One of my pages has a link to scotiaonline.scotiabank.com/online/start.jsp
and I get lots of referrels from it to my home page but probably few orders from them.
Mary Lou, thanks for that tip. Will it affect my search ranking in any way? I have been turning up #1 in relevant searches for the past couple of years and wouldn't want to screw it up!
Thanks
Hugh
I tried some simple searches (flowers, roses, etc) and didn't see any pics from our site but at the end of Sept, I changed the pic on my front page to my store shot and it seemed to decrease the number of these 'image' search results for a week or so but now they're back stronger than ever! I have found that these hits don't turn into orders (at least at the time of the hits).
An example of the tracking results -
images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.atkinson-flowers.com/usrimage/logo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.atkinson-flowers.com/&h=378&w=300&sz=17&hl=en&start=181&um=1&tbnid=bmeusVSmd8fitM:&tbnh=122&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dflowers%26start%3D180%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN[/url]
Funny thing is that the rose pic on the top of the results page is the one I used on my front page until end of Sept.
One of my pages has a link to scotiaonline.scotiabank.com/online/start.jsp
and I get lots of referrels from it to my home page but probably few orders from them.
Mary Lou, thanks for that tip. Will it affect my search ranking in any way? I have been turning up #1 in relevant searches for the past couple of years and wouldn't want to screw it up!
Thanks
Hugh
Sorry Rock, this is not a simple answer...
Basically the answer is no, it will have little affect on your pagerank and shouldn't effect the ranking of your website listing.
However, if you use an image on your website as a "hotlink" to or from another website the answer changes.
A link is a link. So, if there's an <a>/anchor tag surrounding the image, or the image is an image map and the <map> tag has an href pointing to the other website, its a link.
So to solve that problem...
Its not a link if you simply use <img src="www.othersite.com/image.gif"> on your site.
That being said, some SEO's believe that allowing someone to deliver images on their website pages, served up from your website servers, might give your website higher pagerank, similar to people linking to pages on your website.
SEO HINT: Scrutinize your internal links for things you don't want to pass pagerank or linking strength to. These can include direct links to email addresses and images. add Nofollow to these links.
Hey, just to throw it out there... even email addresses can earn pagerank.
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Forgot to answer your other question...
Alot of people are using the [at] technique
Example:
mlouatflashdotnet
I think the best method is JavaScript (there are numerous ways of doing this in Javascript)
Example:
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var string1 = "mlou";
var string2 = "@";
var string3 = "flash.net";
var string4 = string1 + string2 + string3;
document.write("<a href=" + "mail" + "to:" + string1 +
string2 + string3 + ">" + string4 + "</a>");
//-->
</script>
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I *think* I would be careful blocking access to the cgi-bin - if I did with my site I wouldn't be able to get any product pages indexed.
Just be sure to check the links - it doesn't look like your site requires it until the secure pages tho...but check on it Rock.
Just an fyi
ps - site looks nice
Just be sure to check the links - it doesn't look like your site requires it until the secure pages tho...but check on it Rock.
Just an fyi
ps - site looks nice
JB,
She's talking about blocking Google from spidering the CGI directory. That keeps the code private. Doesn't impact the operation of the site.
Ryan
She's talking about blocking Google from spidering the CGI directory. That keeps the code private. Doesn't impact the operation of the site.
Ryan
gloriosaflorist
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Maybe I was wrong about that - but my indexed product codes (urls) include a path to the cgi-bin. Rock's didn't look like they did tho...
I'm with you Tom!
To say that I have little clue about this would be an understatement. This is why I use ecbuilder.Mary Lou, re the scotiabank 'link' ; as you can see here atkinson-flowers.com/item76.htm it isn't a link from my site. I now realize what I wrote gave the impression that it was an outbound link. What I meant to say was that because of this info on my site I was getting a lot of traffic to that page and they then went to my home page and the tracking picked up a referral from that page.
Thank you.
Rock on..........................
I'm not 100% positive, but I did some small experiments. Image search appears to pull images from your website when the results are generated. This is different than traditional SE results, where the data are pulled from the SE's index. Likely, the SE keeps a pointer to the image on your site, and pulls the image live when the SERPs are generated. This is a draw on your bandwidth, but over time, watching which images are pulled could be a good zeitgeist. Although they appear as such in stats programs, they're not a traditional click-through.
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