Comments on: Photos an Overlooked Part of Your Real Estate Blog Traffic http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/ A Laboratory For Real Estate Blogging Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:02:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ben's Vancouver Wa Real Estate http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4657 Ben's Vancouver Wa Real Estate Mon, 25 Jan 2010 04:04:42 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4657 Great tips here. We need to do some updating on our site in regards to the names of images and including the alt tag on all of them. Thanks again for sharing! Great tips here. We need to do some updating on our site in regards to the names of images and including the alt tag on all of them.

Thanks again for sharing!

]]> By: Dave Smith http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4571 Dave Smith Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:05:42 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4571 Mark, Thanks for the update, I was hoping it was another site. And you gave me an idea for a new post. Dave Mark,

Thanks for the update, I was hoping it was another site. And you gave me an idea for a new post.

Dave

]]> By: Mark http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4570 Mark Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:59:55 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4570 Hey Dave, No , I wasn't talking about that website. I was talking about a website I had in the health niche, with around 20% of the traffic from google images. Compared to google search traffic, analytics stats were awful :) Thanks for the replies. .-= Mark´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.schoolgrantsmoney.com/school-grants-for-minorities/" rel="nofollow">School Grants For Minorities</a> =-. Hey Dave,
No , I wasn’t talking about that website. I was talking about a website I had in the health niche, with around 20% of the traffic from google images. Compared to google search traffic, analytics stats were awful :)
Thanks for the replies.
Mark´s last blog ..School Grants For Minorities My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Dave Smith http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4558 Dave Smith Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:58:43 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4558 Mark, I have to assume you aren't talking about your current site, which only has two posts and no images. You won't get much traffic from those images, or posts for that matter. But 2 indexed is a start. Images in posts that illustrate a point, or add to the topic really do catch the eye, which improves the bounce rate. Once a site has a few hundred images indexed by Google it helps get found, especially if those images are tagged according to topic. It really does help to be a photographer so there are never any copy right issues. It takes time. Dave Mark,

I have to assume you aren’t talking about your current site, which only has two posts and no images. You won’t get much traffic from those images, or posts for that matter. But 2 indexed is a start.

Images in posts that illustrate a point, or add to the topic really do catch the eye, which improves the bounce rate. Once a site has a few hundred images indexed by Google it helps get found, especially if those images are tagged according to topic.

It really does help to be a photographer so there are never any copy right issues.

It takes time.

Dave

]]> By: Mark http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4557 Mark Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:53:54 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4557 Hi Dave, You are so right here. Never considered that point of view. On the sites I run, I noticed the google images traffic was useless. .-= Mark´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.schoolgrantsmoney.com/pell-federal-grant/" rel="nofollow">Federal Pell Grant</a> =-. Hi Dave,
You are so right here. Never considered that point of view. On the sites I run, I noticed the google images traffic was useless.
Mark´s last blog ..Federal Pell Grant My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Dave Smith http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4556 Dave Smith Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:42:44 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4556 Mark, It all depends on the market you are trying to reach. In Real Estate, photos are central. Agents get listings many times based on the quality of the photos they take or have taken. Buyers and sellers search images when shopping for a home or agent. In other markets they really aren't that important, but for a real estate blogger, images are often overlooked as a source of quality traffic. Dave Mark,

It all depends on the market you are trying to reach. In Real Estate, photos are central. Agents get listings many times based on the quality of the photos they take or have taken. Buyers and sellers search images when shopping for a home or agent.

In other markets they really aren’t that important, but for a real estate blogger, images are often overlooked as a source of quality traffic.

Dave

]]> By: Mark http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-4554 Mark Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:16:04 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-4554 unfortunately, from my limited experience, the traffic from Google images, is of a low quality, with high bounce rate, short stay on the website, mostly people looking for images. But I agree, it is an aspect you can take into consideration, especially because is not time consuming. .-= Mark´s last blog ..<a href="http://www.schoolgrantsmoney.com/pell-federal-grant/" rel="nofollow">Federal Pell Grant</a> =-. unfortunately, from my limited experience, the traffic from Google images, is of a low quality, with high bounce rate, short stay on the website, mostly people looking for images. But I agree, it is an aspect you can take into consideration, especially because is not time consuming.
Mark´s last blog ..Federal Pell Grant My ComLuv Profile

]]> By: Suzanne http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-2255 Suzanne Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:18:50 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-2255 What a great tip, I had heard someone make mention before but not in as great a detail. Preciate it! What a great tip, I had heard someone make mention before but not in as great a detail. Preciate it!

]]> By: Glenn in Naples http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-1802 Glenn in Naples Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:53:07 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-1802 I asked a question on this topic in another one of your posts prior to finding my answer in this post. Thanks for clarifying this issue for me. I asked a question on this topic in another one of your posts prior to finding my answer in this post. Thanks for clarifying this issue for me.

]]> By: Jayson http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 Jayson Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:07:45 +0000 http://www.realestatebloglab.com/seo/photos-an-overlooked-part-of-your-real-estate-blog-traffic/#comment-1056 Nice post Dave and thanks for all of the detailed information. We don't use images yet but will definitely start. Nice post Dave and thanks for all of the detailed information. We don’t use images yet but will definitely start.

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