google images index

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dvirhazout, Dec 24, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hey!
    I have a new free photoshop tutorials site.
    Google indexed the pages but I want to index the images also..
    Here's the robots.txt file:
    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /cgi-bin
    Disallow: /wp-admin
    Disallow: /wp-includes
    Disallow: /wp-content/plugins
    Disallow: /wp-content/cache
    Disallow: /wp-content/themes
    Disallow: /category
    Disallow: /author
    Disallow: /trackback
    Disallow: /*trackback
    Disallow: /*trackback*
    Disallow: /*/trackback
    Disallow: /*?*
    Disallow: /*.html/$
    Disallow: /*feed*
    
    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /wp-content/themes
    
    Sitemap: http://www.tutorialshot.com/sitemap.xml
    Code (markup):
    Is there something wrong in here that cause this problem?

    thanks, Dvir.
     
    dvirhazout, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  2. magda

    magda Notable Member

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    google image search gets updated a lot less frequently than the regular seacrh pages.
     
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  3. dvirhazout

    dvirhazout Active Member

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    ohh thanks for this info!
    I'll wait till it happen.
     
    dvirhazout, Dec 24, 2007 IP
  4. sweetfunny

    sweetfunny Banned

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    Your Robots is fine, you are only blocking Image bot from your templates.

    Have a read of this, Optimizing for Google Images

    It will tell you everything you need to know about ranking for Google Images, i stuck a video in there the other day by Matt Cutts conforming what i wrote months ago.
     
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  5. dvirhazout

    dvirhazout Active Member

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    what do you mean by saying "you are only blocking Image bot from your templates" ?
    can you be more sprecific..?
     
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    sweetfunny Banned

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    OK...

    The first line instructs the Google Image Bot, and the second line says don't index anything in your /themes folder which contains the images associated with your theme like header, navigation buttons, table dividers etc.

    Specific enough?
     
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    dvirhazout Active Member

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    rep added!
    I knew that but tought you ment something else. anyway- thanks!
     
    dvirhazout, Dec 24, 2007 IP