Forcing Google to index your images?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Steupz, Nov 5, 2009.

  1. #1
    Is this possible?
    My site Bourgy.com has hundreds of images on it hosted by another site of mine.

    But not one is indexed on Google, technically.
    Yet, when someone links my images on their site/forum, I see the damn thing indexed.

    I don't think it's something wrong I am doing because Bing has every image on there.
    Help!
     
    Steupz, Nov 5, 2009 IP
  2. ZXT

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    Try pinging your website or maybe there's a code in your images that says Google don't index it. Check your Robot.txt file and see if you can find something there.
     
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  3. Steupz

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    Thanks for the suggestion. But, I never had a robot.txt file til recently and still no indexing.
    I think you're right about something there saying don't do it, but I can't figure it out for the life of me.
    Here's my usual code
    <div style="text-align:center;"><img id="vh1" title="Mz Berry - For the love of Ray J" src="http://frompstomp.com/images/mz-berry.jpg" alt="Mz Berry - For the love of Ray J" width="525" /></div>
    HTML:
    Could it be the div?
     
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    Check in your robot.txt file that there is any code that you placed for non index for your images. And also set Alt text image code with your image on your website.
     
    Website_Development_NJ, Nov 5, 2009 IP
  5. sevnrock

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    The reason why could also be due to the fact that Google Image bot hasn't gotten to your site. If you have any analytics for your site, check the logs and see which SE Bots have cralwed your site. There's been talk that Google Image takes a lot longer to index something.
     
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    Yes, Try to ping your website.
     
    Steveburner, Nov 5, 2009 IP