Hilarious and Spring

According to Google, I’ve taken the most hilarious picture on the intarweb. What an honor.

Hilarious! 'OBSERVERS ARE WORRIED' printed on the back of a tro-tro in Ghana

That van, known as a tro-tro in Ghana, doubles as a local bus, making the sign all the more hilarious. Of course in foreign countries, Engrish is often used to hilarious effect.

I also have the number 1 picture for spring, which I’d have to agree with. This is one of my favorite photos.

Pink flowering tree during Spring in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Not surprisingly it’s January and lots of people seem to be pining for warmer weather. Via Google. Yeah, weird, I know.

Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:02am
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mush
1/19/06 9:03am

Don’tchoo just love the GoogleImageBot?

;-)

tony
1/19/06 5:17pm

wow, i’d never thought about the SEO techniques arond images. how did you manage?

robin
1/19/06 6:50pm

whoa.
Our pretty tissuepaper flower trees are the number one spring picture in Google? Good job, Justin!

justin
1/19/06 8:54pm

Tony and mush, I probably get more referrers from google’s image search than anything else. I’ll have to crunch some numbers later to give you the hard facts, but even a web heavyweight like Tim Bray gets more love for his photos than his writing.

As for SEO, I don’t do anything special. I use Gallery for my photos, everything has a caption, every page has a creative commons public domain license. Gallery fills in the title and alt attributes with my caption. I don’t even bother renaming my image filenames from DCP_2132 (makes it easier to find them on my hard drive later).

Robin, the funny thing is, as much as I loved those trees, I never found out what they are. Do you know?

justin
1/20/06 1:45am

Over the last two months, referrers that came from an images.google URL accounted for between 25 and 40% of my hits. The average was 31%.