Images means more Traffic

Images means more Traffic

I started blogging in 2009 after reading an article that putting up new content on a regular basis can drive traffic to your site. Before that I had an Amazon affiliate site selling products for about a year. Well, I think I had about 5 people visit my site the entire year and didn’t sell a single item. Wait, oh yeah, my dad bought one product. I was so frustrated that I decided to get rid of that site all together and try this whole blogging thing.

I had heard of blogging, but I didn’t really know what exactly it was. In fact, before I started reading up on it, I just thought it was like an online public diary. The more I researched, the more I got excited.

I realized I could write about anything I wanted, I could possibly make some money at it and turn it into a business.

So…I started my own blog as just a personal blog about things I’m passionate about I posted my site on as many blog directories as I could to start getting traffic and that helped.

As I started to view my traffic stats I could see that certain posts were getting a lot more attention than others. but most of my traffic was entering from Google images.

Then I found a glorious piece of information that has changed my site. I found out that you can put keywords into your images to attract search engines. For a novice like me at the time, this was super valuable. I went back through all my posts and entered key words into all my images and did the same with any new posts. My traffic jumped from 1,161 unique visitors in January to 98,363 in April! I was and still am amazed!

This is how you can add keywords to images on your site

Only add keywords that are specific to that image and don’t use any more than about eight for each image, or else search engines will consider it spam. Also check out the keyword tool under Google Adwords. This helped me out tremendously. It will show you how popular a specific keyword or phrase is. Use keywords that get plenty of traffic, but aren’t over saturated.

I hope this will help you gain more traffic through images on your site