So I had a micro niche site that got hit by Penguin a few months back in May, but before then it was on average receiving about 250 visits a day. The visits were from a long-tail keyword related around a main keyword (which I could never rank for, too difficult).
The site is technically still way out in the SERPs where no one goes, but one picture from my site is on the first row of pictures in Google for two versions of the main keyword, for a total number of searches of about 5,000 per day (exact match). It must have moved up there in the past few days because just recently I've been getting 80 to 100 visits just from that image being on the top row of the IMAGES page, not even in the regular search results. I never did any back linking to the exact image URL, just the pages of the site, but somehow it's up there with the big boys and I've been receiving a nice stream of traffic from it.
Maybe some people already know this, but now with Google doing major changes to sites and probably just making everything worse, you could try and mix it up and rank some images for some high profile terms. Seemed to work for me when I wasn't even trying so it can't be that difficult :)
The site is technically still way out in the SERPs where no one goes, but one picture from my site is on the first row of pictures in Google for two versions of the main keyword, for a total number of searches of about 5,000 per day (exact match). It must have moved up there in the past few days because just recently I've been getting 80 to 100 visits just from that image being on the top row of the IMAGES page, not even in the regular search results. I never did any back linking to the exact image URL, just the pages of the site, but somehow it's up there with the big boys and I've been receiving a nice stream of traffic from it.
Maybe some people already know this, but now with Google doing major changes to sites and probably just making everything worse, you could try and mix it up and rank some images for some high profile terms. Seemed to work for me when I wasn't even trying so it can't be that difficult :)
