Google does not index sites linked by images?

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Google does not index sites linked by images?

Why do image links not work?

craig1972

10:24 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

From my main website, I have three images (all of them mouseover...could this be a problem?) that link to three different sections of my website. When I use a poodle interface, it brings up all these links. But the actual google bot does not index any of these 3 pages at all! It only takes my main index page.

I am wondering why this is? Does Google only follow text links?

vincevincevince

10:34 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Can you paste your link code to us? Without the domain name, obviously? It's hard for me to understand the situation without knowing exactly what you've done.

Google does follow image links, but without ALT text you loose the keyword-in-anchor-text bonus.

doc_z

10:40 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

craig1972

- what are the heights and widths of that images?
- when did you added those links?

> all of them mouseover...could this be a problem?

craig1972

11:02 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

thanks guys! here is the code:


<body>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="holder">
<tr>
<td height="36" class="bg">
<a href="/">
<img src="/images/imagename.gif" alt="About ImageTopic" width="254" height="36" border="0" />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="60" >
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="84%" align="center" valign="middle">
 <a href="page1.cgi" onmouseover="document.self.src=love.src;" onmouseout="document.self.src='/images/Self.gif';">
<img src="/images/Self.gif" alt="Page 1" name="self" width="177" height="150" border="0" />
</a>
<a href="page2.cgi" onmouseover="document.page2img.src=eru.src;" onmouseout="document.page2img.src='/images/page2img.gif';">
<img src="/images/page2img.gif" alt="Page 2" name="page2img" width="177" height="150" border="0" />
</a>
<a href="page3.cgi" onmouseover="document.xyz.src=head.src;" onmouseout="document.xyz.src='/images/xyz.gif';">
<img src="/images/xyz.gif" alt="Page 3" name="xyz" width="177" height="150" border="0" />
</a>
<br />
<br />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td height="42" align="center" valign="middle" >
<a href="info.cgi" onmouseout="document.info.src='/images/info.gif';" onmouseover="document.info.src=foot.src;" title="Terms of use.">
<img src="/images/info.gif" border="0" name="info" alt="Terms of use." />
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>

the height and width of the image should be there too. does this matter? my images are a bit big for usual links. should i consider putting some text below them too?

thanks for any tips!

[edited by: craig1972 at 11:05 am (utc) on April 19, 2003]

[edited by: Marcia at 10:59 am (utc) on April 20, 2003]
[edit reason] Edited specific identifier. [/edit]

craig1972

11:04 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

the links have been there all along! since about 1 year maybe..but i just checked by using google recently when i tried to search for

keyword site:mydomain.com

and i did not find the keyword at all. then i tried to look for all pages indexed on my website and there is only the main page!

Monkscuba

11:13 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Sure Google should follow these links. One page on our site is only linked by an image and it actually ranks quite highly for a useful keyword. I was originally surprised to find this, but have now optimised that page a little. Sometimes you can be surprised what Google picks up!

finoo

11:19 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

> pageX.cgi

I guess the problem is there...

Search engines don't like to show cgi files...

craig1972

11:23 am on Apr 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

Thanks!

Will try changinf the URL then and see if that works.

craig1972

6:25 am on Apr 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

Just to be sure..how long will this take to show up in Google? I know from my logs that it picked up the new page today.

Yidaki

10:48 am on Apr 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

>Just to be sure ... how long will this take to show up in Google?

Usually about two days after the crawl.

finoo

11:04 am on Apr 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

>Just to be sure ... how long will this take to show up in Google?

> Usually about two days after the crawl.

If freshbot hit the site.. And that would depend on what your PR is on the site.

If you watch your log files, you can see if freshbot crawls your pages.. But if you make them plain HTML, and link them up the same way you did in the code you pasted here, my guess is that your pages will we crawled.

craig1972

11:10 am on Apr 20, 2003 (gmt 0)

thanks finoo. dont know what freshbot is (i only see "googlebot" in my logs) but my PR is 1 for the keyword i most care about. lets see...around 30 more hours to go :)