Unwanted search engine traffic from Google images

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  juliemadblogger · Member · May 18, 2009 at 11:33 pm

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  Hi, I have put up some images in my personal blog, and made the blog available to search engines. I got a lot of traffic from people searching for the images. I had put up images of a cup of coffee and a hot fudge sundae–big mistake. I decided I didn’t want that kind of traffic, so I first deleted the images that were giving me all the hits, and that did no good–people were coming anyway. Then I made my blog unavailable to search engines, and the traffic is still coming! I have tried re-doing the title thingy (don’t know word for it) to the entries in question–no luck. I don’t know how to keep the images from showing up above my blog when people do a search.

  I only want traffic to my blog from people that are truly interesting in content. Any suggestions?

  Julie

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 18, 2009 at 11:49 pm

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  It can take months for the links to those images to disappear from Google, and if they were picked up by Yahoo, they will not disappear from Yahoo for possible a millennia since it seems they never delete links from their database.

  Google webmaster tools urgent removal request: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61062 .

  And you never know when one of those people that come to your blog for an image will read something on your blog, like it and then keep coming back for the content. I’ve gotten loyal viewers from some interesting places.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 19, 2009 at 6:00 am

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  I strongly second that. I can’t tell you the number of great blogs I’ve found because of some random search for “Dragon Soup” or whatever. And images ARE content, as well. If you’ve got something interesting beside the pix, they’ll stick around.

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  juliemadblogger · Member · May 19, 2009 at 12:30 pm

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  Hmm…so it is indeed a good way to pick up readership. Never thought of it that way. Maybe I should just leave things the way they are, then, perhaps? I have to decide….

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  manilabeans · Member · May 19, 2009 at 12:42 pm

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  Hi, Julie,
  I’d leave things the way they are if I were you. I personally think there’s no such thing as ‘unwanted’ traffic for the very reasons that raincoaster and TSP already pointed out :D

  Vince

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  juliemadblogger · Member · May 19, 2009 at 1:00 pm

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  Thanks!