Google Images Problem

Why are none of my client's images in there?

[Scott_F]

I have one client who deals with car reviews that has thousands of car images. Things that would be great for wallpaper and such. When I do a site:www.domain.com, no images are displayed. Where as I do the same thing with other client's of mine and thousands of pictures show. Has anyone ever run into this problem?...or is there a way to submit your site to Google Images?

[Scott_F]

Also, I should mention that this site is an authority site, 10 DMOZ listings, PR6, and has been live for about 5 years.

[soapystar]

a car review site with 10 dmoz listings? I think this says more about dmoz than anything else.

[londrum]

could be loads of things....
are the pages that the images are on getting crawled?
can google recognise the images as cars? are the filenames recognisable as cars... do they have alt and title attributes that label them as cars...

[Sunnyvale]

How are the image files named and do they contain the alt attribute? I would think if they have those two factors working for them they would get picked up. Check the robots.txt to ensure the image folder can be indexed. The following would be an example of an image that would likely get picked up:

<IMG SRC="images/1999-Mustang.jpg" WIDTH="150" HEIGHT="100" ALT="1999 Ford Mustang">

...started posting before I saw londrum's entry

[Scott_F]

I will check those things out. Thanks for the help.

"A car review site with 10 dmoz listings? I think this says more about dmoz than anything else."
- DMOZ has review categories for SUV's, Luxury cars and more, which this site categories as well.

[jimbeetle]

And be sure to check the robots.txt and .htaccess files.

[DamonHD]

Hi,

And be aware that it typically takes ~6 months for images to get indexed (pretty consistently since 1997, in my experience).

Rgds

Damon

[Scott_F]

Thanks everyone. Noticed that they had disallowed their images folder in the robots.txt file.