Image SEO

Marketing
1

You know when you look through google images, when you click on the image, is there a way to make a direct link to your site?

That way you don’t lose any traffic. I’ve heard of webmasters doing this, anyone do this with their website?

2

There’s no way you can control how Google links out - currently they present the page the image appears on inside a frame.

You can use JavaScript to remove the frame:

<script type=”text/javascript”>
    if (top.location != self.location) top.location = self.location;
</script>

BUT it is risky, may get your site penalized/banned/dropped and affect any PPC or other framed referrer sites - so is not recommended.

3

I wouldn’t call this SEO; I’d call it obnoxious.

The bottom frame has the image in context in the page, along with all your ads, branding, whatever it is you want.

4

the only thing i heard was alternative text being used and the name of the image compounded with the backlinks.

5

Thanks guys, yeah I definitely don’t want my site banned so I’m not doing it.

I’ve seen a few sites doing it, thought it would be beneficial for traffic.

6

I might be missing something but isn’t your site getting the traffic anyway? If someone clicks on the image in google image search, google loads the image and originating page. Sure it’s displayed in a frame, but that page still gets a visit counted in the traffic, no?

7

That’s what I was wondering, yeah.

It’s better than just returning the plain image, without your stuff around it!