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Image search traffic - helpful or not?

         

vero

4:10 pm on Aug 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

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On one of my sites (with lots of pictures) I notice a lot of referring links that are from Google image search.
I don't sell images, so it's not as if I could benefit from someone doing a search because they want to buy one of my images.
So should I turn off search engine indexing of my images? Is there any advantage to this kind of traffic? Disadvantages? Think most people who do image searches are just looking for images to add to their own sites, blogs, etc? Thanks.

aristotle

8:01 pm on Aug 4, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Most of these "visitors" don't actually come to your site, but simply look at the image on Google's display page. Also, Some people will hotlink your images stealing your bandwidth.