Some of you may scrub off the idea bout earning clicks from image search exclaiming stuff like ‘No one ever click ads during an image search blah blah’. Well if you have a graphics intensive site, you might have missed some good source of income. The truth is that the click rate is quite high (I’m not disclosing this for policy safety) and definitely contribute to your earnings. From the statistics of one of my site Hemmy.net, it makes up about 5% of my total daily traffic.

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This html tag would be familiar to some of you and the most important part would be the alt attribute. A lot of people do leave this part out due to apparent laziness or just felt that it is time wasting to label those images. The truth is I never liked them either, but once you get the habit of labeling, it becomes a breezy task. The tip here is that if you have a series of images, label all of them differently.

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If you have a substantial amount of images hosted at Google, you can select enhanced image search for Google Webmaster Tools and Google will use tools such as Google Image Labeler to associate images included in your site with labels that will improve indexing and search quality. You can easily opt out of this option any time too.

Lastly if you haven’t played Google’s Image Labeler, you should check it out as well. It’s really addicting and helps improve the relevance of image search results for Google.

This is how it works.

You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner’s label, you’ll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.