Redirecting Google Images traffic
 

OK, now that I have built up a nice following with Google images I get a steady 2K uniques to a certain image each day I want to redirect the traffic to that pictures sign up page... could someone explain how to do that? I don't want it to go there for each pic, JUST a specific image's traffic sent to a specific page.

I'd appreciate it.

You should be able to add it directly in the .htaccess
Test this:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://images.google.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule theimage.jpg http://www.signuppage.com/ [R=302,L]

This will tell google images it has 302 moved temporarily.

Does google not catch on to that?

Couple of years ago I added a pop-up to page that was getting shitload of google image traffic and guess what... 2 days later all traffic was history..

Google's algorithm picks it up nowadays.


I get over 10k of google image traffic...about 30 to 35% spill over to my main site. I take that 30 to 35% and scrub them down until they find exactly what they were looking for.

I get so much image traffic to my travel sites -- it's totally useless.

On 2 of my sites that get heavy google images traffic, I installed a javascript that pops the page out of the google frame.. its been there for maybe a month and no loss of traffic so far.

i think its ok to put frame breakers

I was thinking I might be better off using a "frame popper" so that they cant click the "See Full Size Image" link, because Google Images shows the actual web page that the image is on. Thanks for the input guys.

if you need the code for it, lemme know. its very simple.