I would like to get some of my sites images on google. A couple of my images appeared (I don't know how they got there) on google images and I get a lot of traffic from that so I want to add more.

Is there a way to submit images to the google bot or any other way to get your pictures on google images?

The google imagebot scours on its own. If they've added some, they'll add others as long as you don't have a robots.txt denying access to the image folders.

Funny, the only traffic I get from google images is people stealing graphics to use for avatars, sometimes stealing bandwidth by linking to them directly from our site.

Deb

Well the images added dont link to my pages anymore because the I changed from .html to .php.

You have a good point about people stealing the images. I guess thats why they use google images. You can still recieve a huge number of hits from it though. Suppose there are good and bad points.

If you want to rank well in the imagge search I believe the only two factor are the ALT text of the image and filename.

start to use and utlilize the ALT tag for your images, and name them relivant to what you want them to show up under in searches

for example... if you have a picture of say a bottle of water and you want it to show up under a google search for "bottle of water" - you need to use an ALT tag that contains that term, and lable the image itself "bottleofwater.jpg" rather then labeling it something like "img0090854.jpg"