Google images

Hello,

Is anyone here having an idea on how to submit images to the google image so that we can gain visibility there as well.

Is it a manual process or i happens like that (means there is no need to submit images and crawler will find them themselves.)

Cheers,
Mike...

 

there is no need to submit images, crawler will find them themselves.

 

what would be the best approach to get them optimized properly.... what would be the best SEO technique to be used here...

 

When your pages are crawled and indexed, i suppose at the same time the images are also added.

There is no special way of submitting like things in Google

 

no special optimization for images?

 

i personally dont want to be on google images...because a good amount of people that search for images, search them to copy and hotlink them which would not be good either way...

 

One of my sites has a few thousand pictures from previous antique auctions cataloged in static photo albums. I did not do anything special with the images. Google appears to have indexed 2,300 pictures so far and brings me a fair amount of traffic as can seen below.

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&rls=GGLC%2CGGLC%3A1969-53%2CGGLC%3Aen&q=antiquefurniture.us

Links from an Internet Search Engine
- Google 1587 1600
- Google (Images) 902 963
- Yahoo 801 913
- MSN 716 722
- Ask Jeeves 80 82
- Unknown search engines 59 62
- AltaVista 51 51
- Earth Link 20 20
- Dogpile 17 17
- A9.com 14 14
- Netscape 11 11
- AOL 8 9
- AllTheWeb 5 7
- Tiscali 3 3
- Search.com 3 3
- Excite 3 3
- Lycos 2 2
- Free.fr 2 2
- Overture 2 2
- Mamma 2 2
- MetaCrawler (Metamoteur) 1 1
- WebCrawler 1 1
- Hotbot 1 1
- InfoSpace 1 1
- ix quick 1 1

 

yea but maybe they just hit your site to view the picture, google images directs you to the site with the pic and then ppl hotlink it..

 

This is a concern to me also so I now watermark all pictures.

 

I guess naming your image file correctly is the only "SEO" you can do on images

 

how about text link to lmage?

subzero

 

hmmm... ya.. hotlinking would affect and the same may cause the CONTENT THEFT.... i think i should drop the idea of investing time on optimizing images so that they could get into GOOGLE images....

thanks for input guys...

 

if you have a good page about this topic then google will also place your images on a popular spot in image-search. had a place on the sun for "nipples" (safe search) for 2 months or so, but got about 10x more from google search than from google images.
the file name was not really important, they where all numeric. had an alt-tag for all pictures, but the #1 pic had nothing with "nipples" in this tag. so i guess its all about the text. wasnt any dirty site, topic was about image manipulation on some girls

 

Yep, proper name and text around the image.

My observations, and your mileage may differ, is that alt tags are worthless. I've got them everywhere, none pans out.

I've started to experiment with text link, so far no results, but it's too soon too tell.

 

crawler will find them itself - just make sure all your images are well described. be sure to fill up all alt tags - personally, I also fill in "title" tags for images and provide "caption" data, too. as a result, the imaged I fed to googlebot went to public pretty fast. You can also watermark your images with your site URL - real good images I mean, and clearly state that people are free to use these any way tey feel fit.

 

use .htacces to block hotlinking...
my oh my... i am seeing more and more newbies around here

 

We optimize all images on our clients sites for just this reason.... to get them listed and rank well for the G image section.

I think most people would be surprised to see actually how many people find sites because of the images.

Of course... most of those people are probably other webmasters looking to "borrow" your content ;-)

 

To keep people from hotlinking there has been several discussions on changing the .hta access so that the image is something other than what they link to. IE, quit stealing bandwidth ya buggar. In addition, this is a better way to gain advertising space, as opposed to just "blocking" the hotlink.

 

In addition to the image name I'm sure Google takes into account other factors like page and site content when indexing images. However, has anyone noticed how accurate their filtering can be? For example you can get an unsuitable image displayed on a site thats otherwise fine, the image will have a non-descript name like image1.jpg but somehow Google images filters it out? How does it do that?

The only sensible answer appears to be.... manually, but I find that hard to believe.

Jayson Gray
www.affiliatetrail.com

 

I was once feeling defeated when I heard saw that people were hotlinking images from my site! So I have a script that watermarks images on the fly whenever it is hotlinked. Pretty useful actually.