Image Searches Leading to my blog
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I’ve always had a few Google image searches lead to my blog, but what utterly confuses me is what I’m seeing on the stat page today: almost half the referrers are image searches, and most of them for an obscure pic of a play of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
I’m wondering if anyone else is getting an unusually high number of image searches leading to their blogs today, or if this is just me. One of the searches was even in Russian!
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Is there anything new Narnia related coming out on DVD or any major news today about it?
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raincoaster
For yesterday and today almost 3/4ths of the referrers to my blog are google image searches. This is quite a rise for me as well.
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Nothing Narnia-related of which I’m aware. But the overall number of image searches has increased astronomically, which is what made me wonder. Frankly, there are ALWAYS pervs coming to my site looking for “Narnia Porn” I kid you not. But the number of image searches is just way out of the norm.
I’m wondering if the changes at WordPress have effected the way Google Image Search reads and ranks our blogs? Anything that boosts the hits is good, although I must admit it made me nervous at first. I got into a dustup a few weeks ago with some photographers and was worried it was fallout. Glad to hear it’s not just me and it’s probably something good.
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Raincoaster, I had the same question. More than half of my hits over the past week are from images.google.com. I thought it was one person on a lookout for something particular, but it turns out that the searches from from images.google.de and images.google.fr in addition to images.google.com.
Most of the searches are for images of the Yosemite valley, though I got a few hits for an image of Asterix and a few more for posts on Ursula Le Guin’s Earthsea trilogy.
It was strange, but it is somewhat comforting that I’m not the only one being visited by fantastic people from cyberspace ;). Perhaps Andy, Matt or Podz can shed some light on this.
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@drmike: You searched only for raincoster.wordpress.com. I’m pretty sure that the search strings people are using are different – e.g., some words used by raincoaster in the title of his/her posts.
In my case, for example, an image search for “graces” threw up a post called “The Three Graces”. Stuff like that.
My conclusion is that image searches were either not being counted before, or they were being counted but not displayed under “Referrers”.
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I agree. I know that the Narnia pic is the most popular, but just today I’ve had searches lead to me via ,this, this, this, and Edgar Allan Poe.
I guess it’s as you go up in Google rankings, so do you go up in Google image searches. Makes sense, come to think of it. But still, I consider these hits “noise” and would rather not see them in my Referrer stats.
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I’m definitely not up anywhere in google rankings; I’m a 0. Half of the searches on my blog are image searches. That’s good. I’m trying to cater to those who cant read.
I’m coming up at the top or near the top in quite a few of my posts merely because my topics are so obscure – still 0.
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SD, please double check the link that I gave. I searched for pictures coming from the site in question. :)
Forest, Google is telling me that it has 51 pages of your blog indexed.
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Not a problem. Actually after I posted that, I was wondering if hotlinked pics from other sites being used on teh blog would come into play on that search but I think that would be the inurl: search.
Sometimes Google is a pain. :(
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It is kind of weird.I am getting more than 50% of my hits from images googled by people.
Strange but I am happy…at least some people are reading my stuff.
As for google rankings, as more and more people start pouring into your site and as your site gets older and more active, I think your site will be listed in the front page if you have relevant posts.
I have had an essay related to marijuana laws in USA and it has by far been the hot topic and it is well positioned in the first page before 3640,000 related items. Try googling “against marijuana laws in USA”
Google is powerful..hehe
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“Forest, Google is telling me that it has 51 pages of your blog indexed”
I get 11 pages + 19 posts = 40 all up of anything. How is google counting?, with what number system?
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I think since Google works on keywords for websites, that in blogs the ‘tags’ seem to function as keywords. Forest I noticed on your blog that you don’t use tags. I think you might be indexed more if you added tags to your posts.
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I know this is a very old thread, but I’ve noticed that pretty much all my referrals in the last few days have come from Google Image search. That’s for different posts / images as well.
Have they changed something on their end? Is someone else getting this?
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Me also. They must have changed their imagesearch parameters or soemthing. My pagerank hasn’t changed at all, but all of a sudden more than half of my referrers are image searches. They’re looking for the pix of the dead fairy from April, so I guess this is a step up from Narnia?
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