How To Get Ranked on Google Images!

Discussion in 'Google' started by TrafficLicious, Mar 7, 2008.

  1. #1
    Hi all,

    I made a blog post today on "How To Get Ranked on Google Images!" and thought I might share it with you guys as well ...

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    Disclaimer: Ok this post isn’t really about how to get ranked on Google Images (then again, it is) … it’s more about what I found out about Google Images and I thought I might share this with you cool people. ;)

    I titled this post the way it is to capture your attention (i guess I succeeded … didn’t i?) but more correctly, it should have been “How Does Google Images Work” or “How Images Get Ranked on Google Images“.

    Ok, in the past I’ve heard that images get on Google Images because of their “ALT” attribute of the <img> tag on the webpage that they reside but from what I’ve seen so far, that’s so not true (although that’s a minute factor).

    There are many times when I search for a certain keyword but the images returned are totally unrelated to my keyword.

    Here’s what I found out … images are tagged largely by the 20-50 words before and after the image (by and large, the text searched for can be anywhere on the page). Another point to that is that the words before the image are weighted slightly more (just a tad bit more) compared to the words that come after the image (you can verify that with some of the keywords I suggest at the end).

    So here’s what it looks like …..

    <!– 20~50 words before (Weighted slightly more) –> <image> <!–20~50 words after (Weighted slightly less) –>

    Another important factor is the proximity of the keywords before and after the image. So between the 2 following cases, B would come out ahead (all things being equal)

    A:

    xxx xxx xxx xxx fishing bait xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx <image> xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx

    B:

    xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx fishing bait xxx xxx <image> xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx

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    Rest Of The Post: How To Get Ranked on Google Images

    Enjoy it! ;-)
     
    TrafficLicious, Mar 7, 2008 IP
  2. Bohol

    Bohol Peon

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    #2
    What I've researched is that there are only two ways you can rank high in Google images: 1. Alt Tag and 2. image file name.

    Anyway, thank you for you helpful post.
     
    Bohol, Mar 7, 2008 IP
  3. trichnosis

    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    thanks for the link. i like reading about google
     
    trichnosis, Mar 7, 2008 IP
  4. zexy

    zexy Guest

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    A targeted filename and ALT tag will help a lot.
    What many people forget is the context matters as well!
    So you're right about writing a paragraph or two ;)
    Nice tips!
     
    zexy, Mar 8, 2008 IP
  5. TrafficLicious

    TrafficLicious Active Member

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    @Bohol: Well, what I've found out isn't regurgitated reading from other people's findings but my very own and as I've said and explained, it largely depends on the text surrounding the image.

    Cheers!
     
    TrafficLicious, Mar 9, 2008 IP
  6. newbie3

    newbie3 Peon

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    mayby some other tips:

    - Place more then one picture, with different discription, but from same niche
    - use big pictures (more then 300px). Resize them (width:"...")

    thx for the blogpost
     
    newbie3, Mar 10, 2008 IP