Who said Google image traffic sucks?
 

Better than most regular traffic. :2 cents:
http://i54.tinypic.com/2i1mvkk.jpg

Slightly lower/better in some places than the sites overall traffic:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2z6fjtf.jpg

avg. time on site 2 min ,cool :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

What's funny?? 30 seconds could be great and 5 minutes could be bad depending on many things. :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

It only takes 10-15 seconds to browse a page, 2 minutes is actually very decent for IMAGE TRAFFIC or traffic in general.

hmm interesting

Who said it sucked?

People who don't want other people to know about it ;-)

Oh, those guys can never be trusted.

cool, how about you post the sales stats instead of traffic stats which means shit.

The point is that the image traffic is making it onto the site (probably due to Googles new image viewing style) and visiting content and not just looking at the image and hitting the back button. The sales stats don't matter here because they're the same kind of visitor as any other. The traffic is 98% US so why would the sales stats mean anything in this thread? I either convert the traffic or I don't.

then post the sales stats if it really converts

I can't post stats solely on the image traffic because the referrer isn't carried over that far. However the traffic is on the site clicking onto 7+ pages, feeding trades, etc. and generating sales as a whole so what you're trying to get at is besides the point. Take if for what it is I'm not replying to you anymore.

I'm getting sales from that traffic constantly on some blogs...

Nice, now Mech can troll you for stats. :1orglaugh

No kidding. If you name you files right for SEO purposes its a gem. Image search is no different that any other SEO.

We have a lot direct hits and sales with ref links of google images as entry page.

What do you think has the most weight on getting the image traffic: file names or title/alt tags? I do have nicely SEO'd image naming on these pages so I think I need to stop naming images 1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg elsewhere lol.

any more technique/style to utilize google image traffic?

41% bounce rate is aweful, chinese traffic does better than that

Now you're just being mean :upsidedow

I've lost loads of traffic since google made changes to image search. Break out of frames no longer works.

Anyone find out a way around this?

every since google rolled out the new images page style i hate it

:2 cents:

big fan of Google image traffic, it can be very valuable, but you do need to pay attention to your analytics, if it negatively effects your bounce, pages viewed, time spent on site, etc, it can effect your over all SERPS

Hasnt seem to change for me. Since now it automatically does it if they close the picture.