Adsense & Google Image Search

Is there anyway to profit from image search referrals?

[rydlar]

Hi,

Let me start off by saying that I'm a relative Adsense newbie. I run a website which gets a rather large number of Google Image Search referrals (large for me anyhow), in the range of about 500-600 referrals per day.

If anyone's had any success in monetizing this type of traffic through Adsense their insight would be helpful. What I've started to do is put Google Adsense for Search above and below each image and now have the images load on their own html page (started this today). Is there a better way? Ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Darryl

[ken_b]

Did you write a description or caption for each image?

If you don't want a regular adblock on the page, maybe try a Link Unit (Adlinks).

[fdlinda]

I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but a majority of my adsense income is from google images traffic.
I have used PHP to check the referring URL for "images.google" - if it is found, I display a leaderboard ad just above the main image. It is quite big and annoying and I'd never put it there for my normal visitors but it works well with the google images folks..they are a majority of my visitors too.

[rydlar]

Hi ken,

The pages that get referred to from Google Image Search usually have anywhere form 10-15 thumbnails on them with about 5 paragraphs of descriptive text.

Originally I had Google Adsense for Search at the bottom of the page, and one Adsense for Content in the middle of the thumbnails. Problem is, the Adsense for Content wasn't providing properly targeted ads. So now I'm thinking (and made a change on one page) that I would have each individual jpg open in it's own HTML page, and at the top and bottom of that page have Adsense for Search.

Has anyone else had any luck with monetizing Google Image Search traffic?

[ken_b]

Has anyone else had any luck with monetizing Google Image Search traffic?

Image search referals probably aren't going to make you rich, but if you get enough of them it adds up. A large portion of my traffic comes from image search.

Link units work well on these pages for me. One thing to consider is that a link unit will show a default search box if it can't find category links. I also have a regular adblock under the images.

You don't need a lot of text on those individual image pages, but you do need some for targeting to work. A nice Title and short description of the image can be enough.