Google Images
 

What do you do with your Google Images traffic if anything?

Bitch and moan? ;-}

According to my stats, my google images traffic seems to go to my root index pages. This is a good place to have links to stuff like join 4 free or a sponsor like maxcash that requires a credit card but does not charge for the initial sign up. :)

They probably get a little pissed off if you screw with that traffic, right?

I read an article earlier this year (can't find it now) on C-net written by John Dvorak that said Google had been sued for hotlinking websites images (google images). Since then I have noticed that images traffic goes to my root index and I do make a few sales a month from that.

If you don't want to try and make some profit from the traffic, I'm pretty sure there is a way to stop the images bot from spidering your site using robots.txt. |thumb

You can opt out of the image crawl from their webmaster tools.

Some people redirect it and claim no problems.

I think it would depend on how important the domain was - if you do end up attracting google's human review attention, well, the question is, are the signups you get from redirection worth having your name on one of google's shit lists.

Last I checked, they don't specifically prohibit redirection of image traffic. But I haven't checked on it recently.

Some people use framebreakers - I've tried that, I can't say it made a huge difference.

Not an aswer to the question but an interesting note on this topic.

Google has directed traffic to my root for images that I display but are hosted by my sponsors. This means someone could hotlink images from all over the place and get traffic for them.

I would have expected that traffic would go to the host of the image.

I just maintain my Google image traffic, images may give you higher traffic

why care? when google links an image they also link to the site it comes from, ie your website.

its free advertising,