We launched a new website design late February and since then 99% of our large product images do not show up on Google Image Search. We monitored the Image impressions after the launch of the new design, and the images impressions immediately dropped from nearly 30,000 to now 2,000. The only images (with the exception of a few products) that show up in the image search are the small thumbnails and not the full resolution images that the thumbnails link to. We did not mess with the image directories or any page directories... it was purely cosmetic. What could of triggered such drop? From my understanding Google bots should follow the thumbs href to the full-res image, and index it. Is this correct? We have been fighting this for months now, and no one can give us a straight answer. Images are a critical part of our business and this is a detremental blow to our business. I have a thread on Google's forum from May 2016 with some information of what other's have suggested: https://productforums.google.com/for...-place=starred We already made some suggested modifications such as adding titles to the large image in the lightbox, we made sure ALL images have 301 redirect to make sure they are served as https, and we also brought back the "View Detailed Images" link which we hid initially on the new design. The website experiencing this phenomenon is - tstindustries.com Thank you very much in advance for any input/help Sergio
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/google-image-search-results-whats-going-on.2787758/ I think you need to read this thread carefully and try to proper use this: https://forums.digitalpoint.com/threads/google-image-search-results-whats-going-on.2787758/ One more suggestion for you that you should create a Pinterest page for your business and a yourtube channel too. Because for image Google give priority for those two site. Now, you think why YouTube? Yes, youtube image rank, like video thumbnail. But, you need to optimize your image first as it said in the thread. Thanks
Hi, you can try to submit image sitemap to search engines. Besides, make sure the folder which all your images located is not blocked by your robots.txt.
Hi All, Yesterday morning I created an images sitemap for a single product just to test it out...The product thumbnails get index, but the large images don't. I checked the large images directory to see if it was a permissions issue, the permissions look fine - 755. But i'm thinking the large images wouldn't get indexed from the images sitemap because, they are being called from the thumbnails anchor's href. Here is the structure: <a href="LINK TO LARGE IMAGE"> <img src="SMALL THUMBNAIL" /> </a> So I don't think the images sitemap would accept the href as an acceptable image src. Are there ways to tell the bots to follow the href in the images sitemap? Thanks.