engine
msg:4483520 | 1:10 pm on Aug 10, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Do you both have good filenames and alt tags?
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wolfadeus
msg:4484313 | 3:19 pm on Aug 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Yes. We are also both purists when it comes to code - not a line more than necessary. Resolution is comparable, so is file size.
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wolfadeus
msg:4484315 | 3:19 pm on Aug 13, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Oh, and neighbourhood, too - the pictures are the central elements in pages that otherwise feature only text, and the text contains a "normal" keyword density...
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wolfadeus
msg:4485378 | 8:36 am on Aug 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Update: I told my friend about posting this here and we discussed the issue again; we ended up speculating to what extent the image files themselves might contain the "secret ingredient". My jpgs have no author information and tend to be bigger; GPS and other information is also missing, as I take them with a 12 year old digital SLR and post-process them with photoshop. Any thoughts about this?
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Leosghost
msg:4485396 | 9:33 am on Aug 16, 2012 (gmt 0) |
As you don't say if his have any of that "meta" data ?...
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thecoalman
msg:4486410 | 7:31 am on Aug 20, 2012 (gmt 0) |
| and post-process them with photoshop. Any thoughts about this? |
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I don't use Photoshop so I don;t know it's behavior but generally the "save for web" option in image editors strips EXIF/IPTC data.
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wolfadeus
msg:4486429 | 9:34 am on Aug 20, 2012 (gmt 0) |
I am not sure to what extent that meta-data is contained in his files, but I saw that Google is reading some information (photographer) into it - which is probably not written by the camera, but through the software licence information.
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onlineleben
msg:4486447 | 10:36 am on Aug 20, 2012 (gmt 0) |
You can change the information contained in a photo manually. In windows, do a right-click on the picture and then in properties go to the details tab. enter whatever seo relevant data applies e.g. title, subject, comments, author and coypright info, camera specific data. Don't know if SEs can retrieve this kind of data, but it might be worth a try.
Added: seems this is only possible to jpg and tiff files. couldn't find a way to add this to gif or png files.
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wolfadeus
msg:4486468 | 12:43 pm on Aug 20, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Thank you, I didn't know that, but agree: worth a try.
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thecoalman
msg:4486867 | 3:44 pm on Aug 21, 2012 (gmt 0) |
If you want to read/write EXIF/IPTC I'd recommend Irfanview or Exifer. Both give you access to all the fields and have a lot more features like batch mode.
Irfanview itself is a tool everyone should have if they are manipulating images. It's a great utility for basic opertions.
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wolfadeus
msg:4486908 | 5:52 pm on Aug 21, 2012 (gmt 0) |
And it's freeware - thanks for the advice, I will try that.
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