John Lund, an owner of Blend Images & an RM & RF stock shooter (and all around great guy!) has a phenomenal post on his blog about how an art buyer found one of his images via Google Images.

She had found the image doing a Google Image search. Keep in mind this art buyer is very familiar with both Corbis and Getty. Interestingly enough, the social media image in question is with both Getty and Corbis (it is actually a Blend Images photo distributed through many agencies including the “Big Two”), but she found it first on my site!

John is doing a great job blogging and improving his site and images’ SEO. Your images won’t sell themselves if no one sees them and images without text around them are invisible on the web. I have a mini-rant on this topic coming soon, but in the meantime, check out John’s Blog and follow him on Twitter.

If you want to improve your images’ search footprint, get them keyworded, tell a story about them and get those images online! As long as your image hosting platform can read and use IPTC metadata appropriately you’ll be in good shape.