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One of my sites has been gaining a lot of traffic via Google images for the new popular game Grand Theft Auto IV (hurry up and release for pc imo!). Now on the page which the traffic is going to no google ads were in place just an affiliate link to hmv.com as they had an offer on for some free xbox live points or something when you bought the game.
I was getting a lot of clicks through to hmv to their GTA IV page but I had no sales. So I decided to put some Google ads on the page to get something out of this traffic. Which I monitored and got hardly any clicks but still getting clicks at hmv, so I had the idea that maybe hmv arent paying out on GTA IV because I know some merchants are because they are as the term goes “rip off merchants”. Anyway I emailed buy.at and after a couple of days I got a reply saying they were paying commissions on the game… great however out of 1,116 clicks through to hmv for the game GTA IV not one converted into a sale.
Really I know the reason why this is its just people looking for an image of GTA IV they arent actually looking to buy the game. So whats in it for me and my site… not much I’m afraid just a waste of bandwidth…
So anyone else experienced this or had success with Google image traffic?
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May 13th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
To be honest, I’m not even sure how to get indexed for images. I have had a site running for almost two years that is well placed in the SERPs but strangely has no image results, despite having hundreds of images directly related to the main keyword. It is a puzzle.
I can appreciate how affiliate links might not be very successful and I have seen the miserable results that AdSense can yield on image pages. I would be inclined to try some CPM ads on there in order to earn something from the traffic.
And yes… the sooner GTA IV arrives for PC, the better!