Google Images Issue?

[weallscream]

Let's say I search for "Hannah Montana" on Google Images.

I click on the image, then I click on 'full size image' just by habit because I want to see the FULL image.

With certain websites this 'full size image' doesn't link just to the image, but it links to a page where it displays advertisements, or just links back to the page where the image is... Because the website wants you to go to their website not just see the full image.

My blog gets about 800 uniques out of the 1,000 it gets just from google images. How do I go about making more money for my website & making all my images link to my website?

Thanks,

 

[enlytend]

HOW do you do it? Do a redirect based upon the referrer.

SHOULD you do it? It has the potential to be misused to create a very poor visitor experience, to the point of being downright deceptive. If you're redirecting to the page with the image that's fairly innocuous, BUT it would also fall under the category of cloaking/sneaky redirects since you're showing something to search engines that's different than what you show to visitors

From Google's webmaster quality guidelines:

Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."

You risk your site being dropped from the index.

Not to mention, if I'm searching for pictures of something, click through hoping to see a larger image and I get a page full of ads I'll hit the back button before you can blink - so will 99.9999999% of the other people in that situation, so seriously - what's the point?

 

[weallscream]

Yeah I am the same way. It is just irritating knowing I COULD possibly receive more $$ from refering them to my actual site.