Google Images

[yandig]

I have a sports blog that is getting decent traffic to one of the images on the site through Google's Images page. However, most of the traffic is coming to the image itself (it's a blank template), so most of the visitors never actually visit the blogsite.

Is there any way to change the image/location to require visitors to come directly to my site?

 

[Eric Lyon]

I've noticed a few people that seem to of set their page to auto-refresh after x amount of time. While this may use more server resources, it does seem to force the person viewing a google cached image to land on the page the image is actually on after a few second delay.

I think you may even be able to have something coded that only refreshes once after x amount of time and not anymore after that to help conserve resource usage.

Worth looking into i think

Eric Lyon

 

[yandig]

I've noticed a few people that seem to of set their page to auto-refresh after x amount of time. While this may use more server resources, it does seem to force the person viewing a google cached image to land on the page the image is actually on after a few second delay.

I think you may even be able to have something coded that only refreshes once after x amount of time and not anymore after that to help conserve resource usage.

Worth looking into i think

Eric Lyon

Hey Eric,

Thanks for the suggestion. It sounded good until I realized that the landing page from Google Images is still a Google url, so no coding will refresh or redirect to my page.

Hmmm. There's probably nothing I can do, but it was worth a shot.

 

[Eric Lyon]

Not sure if this helps, but I found this reply from someone else with a similar issue:

You can probably just add some standard 'break out of iframes' javascript to your pages and that should fix the issue. Also, if your blog is on wordpress, there are plugins for that.

Break out of iframe code: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/framebreak.shtml

Looks promising

Eric lyon

 

[wishbone]

Did you tried watermark on the image so visitor may type in your URL..

 

[DU]

Just a thought...

You can replace the ".jpg" with a ".php" and have it return an image (or do anything else that you want based on the source).

Similarly you can use .htaccess and based on headers return either the php or img.

It is LIKELY that most people are just linking your image versus anything else. You could have an unedited image on your site and any linked image contain an image with your url watermarked.

 

[timwood]

Did you tried watermark on the image so visitor may type in your URL..

If nothing seems to be working, Just out on a watermark of site link on your image.

 

[durrenmatt]

Maybe if you watermark it and also say you have a link to your image so they have to enter your site to see it without the watermark

 

[cyberdesignz]

Not sure if this helps, but I found this reply from someone else with a similar issue:


Break out of iframe code: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/framebreak.shtml

Looks promising

Eric lyon

Hmm.. Useful dicsusssion breaking out.