Google Images Traffic?

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Staccs

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Today when I logged into Google Analytics I noticed a site I abandoned a long time ago had 112 uniques, waaaay more than it had ever had before.

I clicked Traffic Sources and noticed the top 2 were Google.com and Google.co.uk, but in brackets was referral, not organic. When I click either source it says the link the traffic came from is google.whatever/imageres. Google/imageres is a 404, but I assume it is Google Images?

Has anyone experienced this before? Can I monetize with this? Or am I way off and this is a spider or some shit...
 


Its google Images. Google images can send a fuckload of traffic if you know how to optimize. Monetizing is difficult though. 1-2% adsense CTR on my best image sites.
 
I've narrowed it down to being a picture of a celebrity. If I were to create a new post on the same site, and targeted the same keyword and celeb, what are the chances I could rank as high as this picture, using the same SEO attributes?

Is it a bad idea to try CPA Lead? First I'd like to see if this traffic continues.
 
An interesting side effect if you will of being listed in the top few spots is, sometimes people hot link to your image ...
If you have your images watermarked, some times you get traffic that way as well.
I usually use this tool to discover backlinks to the sites I didn't know about.
Backlink Checker
 
I once had a site with 500 unique a day just from 1 image. I was hinted that image ranking has a tendency to be very temporary so I flipped my site right away, $
 
Staccs said:
I've narrowed it down to being a picture of a celebrity. If I were to create a new post on the same site, and targeted the same keyword and celeb, what are the chances I could rank as high as this picture, using the same SEO attributes?

Is it a bad idea to try CPA Lead? First I'd like to see if this traffic continues.
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Totally unrelated.. You would have to try to rank for the keyword in as much the same way as you would rank any keyword. ranking for image is quite different and easy (due to lack of competition?)
 
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