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This is probably true (the networking thing), but I am soooooooo horrible at this, and fortunately my niches are mostly low comp. so I find the article writing for sites like squidoo work wonders for my site.

Like I said, haven't tried squidoo yet but I am going to soon, and I agree with Dan that you need to make sure the article is well written for it to work.

Thanks this helps me a lot! I am just going to go ahead and try to build the site as an informative website on the subject. Put some adsense up and see how it goes.

I go to digg and also write a unique e-zine article as well. Have been thinking about doing a squidoo as well because I always see them turn up in the search results.

Good luck!

Right that makes sense, I guess I am wondering if there is any way to turn the traffic itself into money OR is it just an overall boost in my ranking power and I will still need to find a way to rank for keywords that will bring in money.

I am new to ranking for images and curious about whether this type of search ever translates to clicks and money???!!!

I have a lot of visitors who bail right away and many who stay for only about 30 seconds, probably to download the image. But there is prob 1 out of 10 ppl who came through and image search who stay quite a while. I would imagine those ppl might click on something Adsense, Amazon, or whatever is there.

Any info advise on image search specifically would be greatly appreciated!

I was just in here yesterday asking a question, so I appreciate everyone's patience with this newbie!

This is a totally different site that I have a question about so here goes:

I have a site that has started to receive large amounts of traffic from an image search. My intention was to use Amazon for products based on my website theme. I haven't been getting traffic from my intended keywords.

Now I rank #2 for an image search, loads of traffic! GREAT! But what next? These ppl. aren't looking to buy stuff, they just want the image. Fine, it is a public domain image.

I thought of adding some more informational articles and using adsense to bring in some cash.

Any opinions on the best way to go with this site?  I only have 3 articles up so it could go in any direction from here.

Thanks!!!

Thank you both! These are great answers and probably true in this case but I guess that would lead me to a secondary question.

I have seen questions in here about pages not being crawled with the SEOMOZ Campaign tool. So I hate to now post the question, "why are my pages not being crawled?"

But that is the mystery. As soon as I made the new allow all robots text file and submitted it, I checked and instantly my pages were being crawled again. Now nothing again, it just sits at N/A. As well as the traffic dropped off...

Confusing. But I am just going to give it awhile to look for overall patterns or maybe it is a glitch with the SEOMOZ tool that just happens to be corresponding with the traffic dips. LOL, I know strange things like this do occur in this business.

Thanks and if anyone has anymore ideas I am happy to hear them.  I was worried I had some sort of malware or whatever the hackers do to your site????!!!!

Thanks for your response! As for campaign I just mean the campaign tool here on seo moz. It is what keeps saying the pages aren't being crawled at the same time my traffic drops. Then when I see the traffic it also says the pages are being crawled on the campaign settings.

Sorry if all of this is wording confusingly, I am struggling to explain exactly what is going on here.

It could all just be coincidental. I probably will have to just wait and see, like you say, traffic is going to be up and down.

I haven't used any Google tools on this website, just because I have been paranoid of the big G lately and read about keeping some data private from them by not using those tools.

Paranoia maybe, so I might consider using those tools just to see if anything strange pops up.

Hello, I have been building websites for about 4 months now and finally had my first real success with a website.

I found a niche that I was able to get on the first page with. This site was fine and then boom it dropped to #17 around the time of the recent Google changes. So I just thought it was that, I decided to add it as a campaign on here.

This is when I noticed that the pages were not being crawled. So being new at all of this, I researched that.  Of course, the main things were is the privacy and robots.txt.  It is running on wordpress and I know not to set the blog to private, but I wasn't familiar with how to edit the robots.txt.

I found a good plugin that easily allowed me to set the text to allow all bots. It seemed to be set to the normal wordpress settings before, and I never had a problem with any of my websites not being crawled.

Anyway, once I just set it to allow all bots on ALL of my website, the pages started being crawled again.

My traffic went back up and I was on the first page all day yesterday.

Today, so far big drop off. So, I deleted the campaign and set up a new one. Sure enough no pages crawled yet.

I made some security changes using Bulletproof Security and another plugin to see if that effects it.  Nothing yet.

I am just really confused as to what is going on, so if any of you have any ideas that would be great.

It is a simple site, and I made some changes like theme when I was trying to figure out why the pages weren't being crawled. So it is not the most beautiful design right now. Also, I try my best to put up well-written useful content, so I don't think that is the issue for the rankings drops.

I don't have many if any actual backlinks yet because of the newness of my site, could be the reason for it acting strange BUT none of that explains the pages not being crawled at the same time my site drops?????

Sorry so long but had to explain it all! Thanks in advance to anyone who has anything to say about this situation!

Edit: I should clarify, I put the the security plugins on yesterday while I was on the first page and have deleted them to see if that allows the pages to be crawled. Sorry if I wasn't clear.