As we know, google images doesn't come by often and I noticed with the last visit, that it only indexed the photos that were showing on my main blog page at the time that it came by. I have pages and pages of photos which were not indexed. I only keep 4 posts on my front page because they are image heavy and I don't want to bog down the user waiting for images to load. I have a sitemap at google webmaster tools and my regular posts do get indexed for the word content. How can I get google images to index photos from my entire blog and not only what's on my first page? Thanks!
You will need more unique content and quality backlinks. Content and onpage SEO will help Google rank your images for the proper keywords. The backlinks will help you rank higher for these keywords.
Thank you for the reply! All of the content is unique, they are all photos with some titles and words describing the photos. My images rank VERY well once they are indexed. They are almost always on the first page for important search terms and I get lots of traffic for any images that are actually indexed. My blog has about 150 backlinks and only has a pr1 while my main website page has a pr3. I don't see m/any backlinks going to inner pages of my blog. People always link to the main blog page. The thing is, when google images comes, it grabs and indexes every single image on my main page all of which rank very well in google images search, but it doesn't go deeper into my blog for other images. I noticed google images coming about every 4 months and I am expecting the images bot any day now and I'd like to see if there is anything that I can do to lead the images bot to all of my images and not only those on the front page. Btw, my blog is highly seo optimized with every seo tool available and each post has its own unique page title, meta tags, description, and all duplicate content is noindex and nofollow. Titles are all descriptive, text includes my keywords and sometimes I even put some <h2> tags within my posts on other keywords. Images are all named with keywords with alt text as well. I just don't know how to get it to go beyond page one. Thanks!
darn! I just checked and it looks like the image bot came last week but the new images are just showing up today. Once again, it took all photos from the front page only ignoring all previous posts between now and the last time it came by. I guess I have another 4 months to figure this out.
Are images that important to search? I don't personally search for images with the intent to visit a website. Is this something I am missing out on?
That's untrue. My post on a technology product is ranking first in Google's images and i am getting virtually 100s of clicks from just images. The trick to optimise the images for Google is NAMING THEM APTLY. The keywords that I used to name the images were read by the bot and the indexing is showing up results for the post which had been done 2-3 months back.
Thanks for the reply but no, this is not enough. As I stated, my images all have appropriate file names, alt tags, descriptions, titles of blog posts with related keywords and text with related keywords as well. I also have full exif info embedded into the images. Believe me, my images are fully optimized. Google image bot takes all images from the front page of my blog but doesn't go deeper. I need to figure out how to get the image bot to go past the front page. (have sitemap and all that too). My main site with blog has about 90 images indexed when I actually have 348 images just on my blog alone. I started a new site with fully optimized images in an html gallery and I saw google images at my site the day after I put it on google webmaster tools. I had no links to it and had not posted it anywhere else. I didn't think it would call google to the new site so fast and I wasn't ready! I was so disappointed. Then two weeks later, 60 of my images (every single image from a particular gallery) was fully indexed in google images and am receiving lots and lots of traffic to a brand new site with 0 page rank and no backlinks to it whatsoever. Had I had the other galleries up, I'm confident those would have been indexed as well. So I'm sure this is not an issue of properly optimizing images, it's an issue of how to get google image bot to go deeper to find them.