What is the best way to help Google pickup images? I used a photo program which creates thumbnails/slideshows, but there are no tags on these photos or the pages it creates. Also, do any of the photo sharing sites get picked up well by google (I would imagine Picasa.. what about Flickr?) Thanks Lyle Kamenir New York http://lylekamenir.com http://nycdts.com
the best way to help google pickup images is to use alt text, read http://www.worksforweb.com/publications/faq-about-seo/#alttext
every image must have alt, and title. These alt and title of the image should keep the keywords and some how describe the image. Google will surely index your images.
Alt text are the best way to promote your page in image search. Moreover you can share your photo link in various photosharing websites with keywords as title or tag.
using images in your SEO technique is very useful posting images on image posting site with higher PR always provides good backlinks..
Put all image in the a Separate directory into the Root Directory. Image Name should be SEO friendly and Put ALT Tag in all images. These all are major points which can help to crawl all images available on the website.
The best way to index the images in Google or other SEs is using the proper 'alt' attribute. Also make sure you have given permission to Google image crawler in your robots.txt file as well.
Thank for you. i was same question for this what is Index google images and "one more flash image you create ALt tag" please talk to me.
Search engine spiders can’t read the text in images. To understand what an image is about, it relies on ALT tags, the image file name, and text around the image. The ALT tag is an attribute that allows you to add descriptive text that can be crawled by search engines.
Try to rename the images in a descriptive manner. Like tom-with-a-cat.jpg relevant than 00029.jpg. Also "alt" tags helps in this case. You can also add the "title" tag but it doesn't helps much.