Hey all.. anyone have the best practice for getting images indexed in google? I've got regular pages down pat.. np. But is there anything different for getting images indexed in their image search (id tag, name tags, alt tags). I'v e never really seen any mention of this but I run a site that has a bunch of images (http://www.20minutestokill.com for those that care to visit.) Any help would be great.
Try including alt="" and name="" for every image, or as many as you can, ie sticking to the web standards helps. I'm not sure if dreamweaver can produce standard compliant html, but I know Nvu can. Also there is kompozer, a newer version of nvu. html tidy online is good for fixing up your existing html. There's also gui versions for windows: htmltrim tidygui tidyui tidynet
That would just make your coding easier to validate so the bots could read the site better. I've really no idea what the factors are for image indexing.
They probably use the filename as well, plus their research (search for `image`: labs google com slash papers.html Large Scale Performance Measurement of Content-Based Automated Image-Orientation Detection Large Scale Image-Based Adult-Content Filtering,
I was going through all my old digitalpoint forum subscribed threads, to answer your question about getting into google's image search: Your answer is here: http://www.bluehatseo.com/check-mate-google-images/ Edit: to clarify, this will get you ranking in google's image search, it won't get you indexed. I don't think anyone knows of any secrets of actually getting into the index in the first place, other than general seo (trusted links from quality sites, etc...).
The google webmaster tools have an option check box to deep index images on your site. Sign up for a google account and this is an option or search for "google webmaster tools" on google. Some cool stuff in this!
you must allow google to use your site for image search on G webmaster tools and you must optimize your iamges for image search with using image alt tags and image name
I have had quite a few images indexed and I have really clear descriptions in alt and title markers. But for some reason Google directs traffic to me using images that are completely wrong for the particular query
So you're saying that Google only indexes images on sites that allow deep indexing via their webmaster tools? I don't think that's correct. In any case, it would hardly make their image search service comprehensive if they disallowed those who chose not to use that service.