How to avoid Google image search bandwidth leech

Does your website have many images? Have you ever realized that Google image search steal your bandwidth (and may be a huge cash)?

If you’ve ever used Google Image search you may know how it works. When you enter a keyword and press search button, Google will display about 20 thumbnails of images related to your search term. If a surfer clicks on one of the thumbnails he or she is brought to a page with a thumbnail of the image in a frame above the image containing web page. This frame says “See full-size image” and gives the URL of the real image. This way, the surfer can view that image without the bother of looking at the site.

Google image search frame

This kind of traffic can leech your bandwidth if your site has many images, specially image gallery sites. In this post I’m going to give you a small tip to help you avoid that. Just use a small javascript to solve the problem. Instead of that bandwidth leeching frame, you are redirected to the page the image came from without a frame.

This doesn’t matter much for sites with minimal Google Image traffic, but for some of adult sites this is huge. If you have any kind of image search traffic, this javascript will help you avoid bandwidth leech and may be monetize it:

<script language=”JavaScript1.1″ type=”text/JavaScript”>
if (parent.frames.length > 0) top.location.replace(document.location);
</script>

Just simply put that nice script in your site header and you’re already done!