Image search feature and traffic

Is worth to let them search your images? Traffic?

[silverbytes]

Some major SE have image search features (Goolge and Yahoo for instance).
I particullary don't like them in my site because I think the people who search directly for pictures will use them, if they find the photo I have in my home and they like it, they will probably take it.
I don't blame because in certain way and don't want to start a long thread about copyrights, I understand that the web is a free place and we all obtain some benefits about that.

But the question here is: do image searches bring you any usefull traffic?

Or is it better to be as far away as possible of that robots and don't appear in any image search?

I saw a newsletter tip, recommending how to rank well in image searches.... when I saw it I thought: Who wants even to be found in search image's searches?

What do you say?

[ZopeMaven]

> I saw a newsletter tip, recommending how to rank well in image searches.... when I saw it I thought: Who wants even to be found in search image's searches?

I do, actually. I'm actually trying to design my image archive software to be more Google-friendly. Can you post a link to the newsletter article (or forward me a copy)?

[moishe]

I was actually thinking of posting on a similiar subject, but seems like this would be a good thread to add this to.
I have always blocked people from linking to images on my sites as a way to protect my bandwidth, but now I am wondering; If someone links to one of my images, wouldn't that count as a backlink, thus helping my PR in Google? Obviously, I would want to keep an eye on who links to me and block any that are linked from "bad neighborhoods", but as to the rest, if I have a picture of a widget tree and someone with a site about growing widget trees is linked to it, is that not a good thing?

[silverbytes]

The notice said in short:
you can sell with images, use the alt tags and put smart names to the files.

I really doubt about that. People don't use search images instead common search. People search for images when they want to use the image. Not be informed about the subject of the image..

BTW didn't mention anything about what happens if they link to the image using your domain.