Comments on: Image Search: Blessing or Curse? http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/ SEO weblog Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:15:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: LZZR http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/#comment-24925 LZZR Sun, 08 Jul 2007 14:16:05 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/#comment-24925 <strong>Chuck</strong> I really don't see any problem there - after clicking on a thumbnail from results page Google brings you to a page where your image is displayed in a frame in <em>original context</em>. In other words you get your page displayed in a Google frame. The thumb at the top leads to a full-size image but the likelyhood of a user clicking on an orphant image placed at the top (not very clickable page area) is too low as at the same time the user has all of your page displayed for clicking. I truly don't thing that this picture can be improved in any significant way and even if it can - think about cost/results ratio. I am really intrigued by this: <blockquote> so that only thumbnails can be directly linked to…and the newly-spawned full-size image window, will be unlinkable</blockquote> How you intend to achieve this? IMHO you can not prevent anyone from linking anywhere, even to a non-exsisting page or file. I can see that it is possible to redirect requests to image files to pages from which images originate or serve full-size images via a referrer based script but both of these solutions are terribly costly and will bring very little results in terms of human traffic. BTW always doublecheck that you spelled the URL of your blog right - http://braindump.chuckbrown.com/ (it was braind<strong>r</strong>ump.chuckbrown.com I corrected it in your post :-) ) Chuck
I really don’t see any problem there - after clicking on a thumbnail from results page Google brings you to a page where your image is displayed in a frame in original context. In other words you get your page displayed in a Google frame. The thumb at the top leads to a full-size image but the likelyhood of a user clicking on an orphant image placed at the top (not very clickable page area) is too low as at the same time the user has all of your page displayed for clicking. I truly don’t thing that this picture can be improved in any significant way and even if it can - think about cost/results ratio.
I am really intrigued by this:

so that only thumbnails can be directly linked to…and the newly-spawned full-size image window, will be unlinkable

How you intend to achieve this? IMHO you can not prevent anyone from linking anywhere, even to a non-exsisting page or file. I can see that it is possible to redirect requests to image files to pages from which images originate or serve full-size images via a referrer based script but both of these solutions are terribly costly and will bring very little results in terms of human traffic.

BTW always doublecheck that you spelled the URL of your blog right - http://braindump.chuckbrown.com/ (it was braindrump.chuckbrown.com I corrected it in your post :-) )

]]> By: Chuck Brown http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/#comment-24872 Chuck Brown Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:48:48 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/#comment-24872 Image search can be a wonderful thing, but it can be a huge pain. I confess, I really don't understand why Google handles image search the way they do. What I do know is that, by pulling the image out of content on my pages and allowing view of both the thumbnail and full-size image out of context, they are removing almost all likelihood that the ads on my page will ever been seen. Because of this, I have a team in India hard at work at the moment...redesigning my site, so that only thumbnails can be directly linked to...and the newly-spawned full-size image window, will be unlinkable. It's expensive to go this route, but Google has left me no choice. Image search can be a wonderful thing, but it can be a huge pain.

I confess, I really don’t understand why Google handles image search the way they do. What I do know is that, by pulling the image out of content on my pages and allowing view of both the thumbnail and full-size image out of context, they are removing almost all likelihood that the ads on my page will ever been seen.

Because of this, I have a team in India hard at work at the moment…redesigning my site, so that only thumbnails can be directly linked to…and the newly-spawned full-size image window, will be unlinkable.

It’s expensive to go this route, but Google has left me no choice.

]]> By: LZZR » Why it is good to link to LZZR http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/#comment-23977 LZZR » Why it is good to link to LZZR Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:27:48 +0000 http://lzzr.com/search-engines/image-search-blessing-or-curse/#comment-23977 [...] free to copy them and don’t be afraid of hotlinking as hotlinking is good! Now if you are still thinking that this whole idea is just a shameless self-promotion – go back [...] […] free to copy them and don’t be afraid of hotlinking as hotlinking is good! Now if you are still thinking that this whole idea is just a shameless self-promotion – go back […]

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