Google Images

getting images listed in Google Images

[smartie05]

Does anyone know or had success with getting their images listed on Google Images?

I've heard making the images clickable helps get them listed. I've also heard you need certain text in the .ALT description and/or title. Thanks.

[Clint]

I never submitted anything to G images, and my OLDER product images appear mostly on the first page of G images. I just checked, and NOT A SINGLE one of my product images a few months old are showing up! There can be no search results at all in some cases! So, apparently G is doing something different with image indexing. I have no other explanation as to why my older product images are indexed but not my newer ones unless they take about a year to add an image to their images.

Most of my images are product images and therefore are not clickable. You click a link for the products' pictures, then it opens in a webpage. I do in some cases have clickable thumbs.

[Clint]

I just noticed something interesting. You have to be very careful what you call your images. Several months back I started getting VERY DESCRIPTIVE with product images. I make the image name the FULL name of the product and hyphenated if there are more than one word in the product's description. Don't put a number after the images' names, like productname1.jpg, productname2.jpg, or product-name1.jpg etc., in the case of multiple views of the same product. Use a -1 or -A at the end of the image name if needed.

I also noticed that G doesn't care if you search for the actual name of the image, or the product's link text, but it seems to like best the alt/title text of the image. I still have no explanation as to why it apparently takes many months to a year for images to be indexed. Maybe a "sitemap for images" is needed.?

[mrMister]

The text around the images helps as well. You want your serarch term placed close to the immage in the code.

Also bear in mind that indexing isn't anywhere near as quick as HTML pages. Because image files take up much more bandwidth, Google crawls images much less frequently. You should expect to wait at least three months before your images will appear on imageas.google.com