Images on my blog are still no indexed by Google Images

One of my blogs has almoust 6 months old and Google Images still not indexed my images. I have lots of images , but Google Images did not indexed...
It happened at the end of the month to index some images, but now they have dissapeared. This happened also 2 months ago.
I'm sure everything is ok with my blog and images are SEO optimized, but can you tell me if Google Images needs so much time to index images?

Thank you

 

Make sure you enable enhanced image search via Google Webmasters Tools. (www.google.com/webmasters)

Dashboard > Your Site > Tools > Enable Enhanced Image Search

Then Review: http://images.google.com/imagelabeler/

 

I already have Dashboard > Your Site > Tools > Enable Enhanced Image Search enabled for a long time...

 

What is your sites URL, I'll overview a few pages.

 

hi ssandecki ; the url it is funatiq.com

please let me know; any help would be appreciated

 

Where are the pictures?

 

they are in the images directory

funatiq.com/images/

also , every post has at least one picture on it and they are all in funatiq.com/images/ directory

 

Do you have alt="" elements in each img hyperlink?

 

yes; i do have alt elements;

 

There really isn't much more I can tell you to do, format is good do you have a xml sitemap?

 

yes; sure; there is a xml map also

 

You have done everything good with keywords in filename, and Alt text.

However...

I would remove from your robots.txt

and

You don't have to tell robots "to" go places as they will anyway, you only need to tell them "not" to go places. Bad formatting can have bad effects.

Also in your Meta:

Any reason why you have Noarchive?

Also i'd remove everything except your noodp tag, same as above you don't need to tell robots to index and follow your site they will anyway.. Your just expanding your code to content ratio and complicating things.

 

okay I had same problem. and I enabled enhanced image search under google webmsters. and what does it actually do? someone mind explaining?

 

Use your keyword on the filename of your picture and put alt tag on it...

Alt tags is so powerful in terms of Google Image Search... My pictures is displaying on the Google Image search...

 

I don't think it's been mentioned here yet, but it seems the Google Images index is updated much less frequently than the text index. If you Google (heh) "Google Images Update" you will see some threads about this...

 

My images on blog takes 8 months before I got rank in images search.

 

sweetfunny ; thank you ; i will try what you told me

Hersheys ; thanks ; so after 8 months you had all the images on your blog in image searches; but in that period of time of 8 months were there days when you had some images in the google image search ?

 

No problems, yeah i really don't feel comfortable with how you had your Robots.txt and Meta configured.

<Shameless self promotion>

I wrote up How to Optimize for Google Images which may be of use. It also discusses duplicate content with images (yes really) which i havn't seen talked about by any other SEO and i doubt many people are aware of.

 

Thanks, interesting read. I haven't focussed on image search at all which is something I plan to change right now....