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We get very little search traffic from the images on our site & I can't necessarily figure out why? We post a ton & tag them correctly, we've got to be missing something?

We are a Wordpress blog, can anyone provide some quality articles on Image search or have suggestions that should help to get more traffic?

Our site does fairly well, as we get over 100k/visits a month, so we'd really like to get more traffic from our images.

Would you always do this, even in extreme cases? Say for example you had to 100's of redirects? Would that be overkill?

Over a year ago we moved a site from Blogspot that was adding dates in the URL's (i.e.. blog/2012/08/10/) Additionally we've removed category folders (/category, /tag, etc). Overall if I add all these redirects (from the multiple date options, etc) I'm concerned it might be an overload on the server?

After talking with the server team they had suggested using something like 'BWP Google Sitemaps' on our Wordpress site, which would allow Google some time to re-index our site.

What do you suggest we do?

Ya, I read through that article yesterday & see that they recommend the same setting as the Yoast plugin should be doing? Although I didn't ever get a response from me to see if there is something missing?

For now, I plan on adding this to the robots.txt file & see what results I get?

Do you know the time frame that it takes to get the updates in GWT? Will this update within a few weeks or would it take longer than that?

Thanks for all the help!

BJ

Sorry to open this back up after a month, in adding this to the robot.txt file is there something that needs to be done within the code of the site? Or can I simply update the robots.txt file within Google Webmaster Tools?

I was hoping to get a response from Yoast on his blog post, it seems there were a number of questions similar to mine, but he didn't ever address them.

Thanks,

BJ

Ok, I've posted a question on Yoast.com blog to see what other options we might have? Thanks for the help!

Ok, I just did a little more research into this, to see how Yoast was handling this within the plugin & came across this article: http://yoast.com/example-robots-txt-wordpress/

In the article he stats that this is already included within the plugin on search pages:

I just confirmed this, by doing this search on my site & looking at the code: http://www.discountqueens.com/?s=candy

So this has always been in place. Why would I still have the 100K not found links still showing up?

We didn't have these errors showing up previously, so that's why I was really suspicious? Also we have Joost De Valk's SEO plugin installed on our site & I thought there was an option to turn off the searches from being indexed?

http://screencast.com/t/KLPVGTzM I just logged into our Webmaster Central account to find that it shows 100k links that are not found? After searching through all of them they all appear to be from our search bar, with no results? Are we doing something wrong here?

Awesome..thanks for the actionable items, I'll jump into them & see what I can find. Thanks!

Of course it does...we have people coming to the site looking for coupons. Our popup is a free eBook on how to save money using coupons. It doesn't popup every time, only for first time visitors.

Do we get 100% of the people submitting an email..of course not. Does anyone get annoyed, of course. Do we get higher conversion rates than without out..of course. That's why we use it!

If we judged everything by the cover, we'd never get anywhere. All the decision made on a site, need to be tested & measured. Hence what I was asking above in the article. If someone had data & ran some tests to suggest that a popup would have an effect on a popup, then that would be helpful information to have as I'm trying to address the drop in rankings.

K, thats a good opinion, but not the question at hand. I understand that it turns off some visitors, but we do it because it works

If it was in some way affecting our SEO, we would look into other alternatives.

Actually I just pulled up my notes to find out when we added the popup to the site & it was on May 19th, which would have came after the traffic had dropped for these pages.

Hmm...you're the second person to question the popup promoting our eBook. Can you provide any articles that discuss how this would affect our Organic rankings? Could this really cause that much of an issue?

If I turned it off & waited to see how long it would take to get better search results, how long do you think I would need to wait to see results? I'd be fine running a test on this. At the moment, we do get a good amount of subscribers, so it would be a loss if we lost it.

This page http://onefrugalchick.com/2011/03/22/free-mio-drink-mix-sample-new-product/ ranks higher for the term & was posted around the same time as ours. So I'm not sure if it would just have been a freshness boost?

What tool are you using to crawl this page to find all the html errors? That would be helpful to find them & to start fixing them.

Do you have any resources/articles you could send about a page having an issue because a popup promoting the site? I'd be curious to look into this to see if there could be any issues.

Thin Content: This was my original impression, but after the Panda update we stuck around for at least 2 months, before anything happened. I wouldn't have suspected an update like that to take this long, so I'm suspicious about it being something else? Do you know if it could have delayed by two months?

Thanks for the response! I have tracked the backlinks & haven't seen any major drops overall? Is there any tools available that would show an overall link count for a particular site overtime? Also I wouldn't say this was a competitor move, as much as something happening on our site.

I read over this post on the blog tonight: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/lessons-learned-by-an-over-optimizer-14730 & it's got me concerned that I might be having a similar issue on our site?

Back in March & April of last year, we ranked fairly well for a number of long tail keywords, here is one in particular 'Mio Drink' for this page: http://www.discountqueens.com/free-mio-drink-from-kraft-facebook-offer

The page is still indexed, but appears back on page #3 for the search term.

During this time we had made a number of different updates to our site & I can't seem to put an exact finger on what might have caused the problem?

Can anyone see any issues that might have caused this to drop?

Thanks,

BJ