Why don't google index my pictures? When i check the google index i have over 23k sites indexed: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Awww.wallpaperweb.org But when i do a image search i only get 62 results (http://images.google.com/images?q=site:www.wallpaperweb.org&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi) How can i fix this problem? my site contains only pictures, so i whould like to get included in the google image search.
You can use the alt="text here" tag, this is used for text only browsers that can't view images, but it is believed that google uses this text to descript a picture.
If you have a Webmasters account with Google and have submitted your sites, you can select for them to be active with Google Image search.
I completely forgot about that! Isn't this just use a more advanced method of indexing your images? For thread starter: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=48367&hl=en
I really wouldn't know what else to say, I have a funny pictures website and almost all my images are indexed with just these methods. Sometimes you just have to wait and let it naturally happen.
there is no "alt tags"...no such tag exist in HTML. alt is an attribute of <img> tag. its better to say alt text than alt tag. putting an alt text to your images might solve your problem. with this, now bots can read your images.
All the pictures got alt attribute. Example: http://www.wallpaperweb.org/wallpaper/buildings/Summer-In-Manhattan-New-York_22742.htm
You should put alt in every pictures you have in your site. This will be the very basic way of making your pictures available for index by most search engines.
i have this one site i never used any alt tags for my images, and yet google placed me on page one of images, so i dont think alt tags have anything to do with it, i might be wrong
1. you get similar pics SERPS than content SERPS - if your page is out of top 20-30 then most likely you have NO image results as well unless most or all above your SERPS have NO pics on their sites 2. OF COURSE all pics need alt tag AND pics description NRAR ( dirctly above or below image ) 3. google.com/webmasters/tools/sitetools > tools > Enable enhanced image search ! then also participate in Google's rather new "image labeler program" its fun and helps you to better label your pics for popular commonly used keywords - see http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/ does image traffic convert into real traffic / real adsense $ ? YES I have some 10'000 pics on my content site - wallpapers, lovecards, documentary etc ane enjoy a beautiful CTR/eCPM across all sections/channels
You have 94 now. Well looks like you are doing everything great for image search, Alt Attribute, Descriptive Filenames, Matching Title etc. Google image bot is very slow, all you can do is keep building links to your internal pages and wait it out.