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yes, 70 images on a page is a lot, doesn't it take a long time to download? Couldn't you divide these up into several pages by type, color, size or whatever? This would make it easier on the visitor as well as giving the search engines more pages to index and the potential of more traffic for you?
As for titles above the images, there is nothing wrong with identifiying what the products are in accompanying text in addition to the alt text for each image. You want to use text to explain the product beyond just the image, remember some people surf with images turned off, some are blind and rely on screen readers and some people just want more product identification.
IMHO you can't sell a product without an image, but then again the image may leave you wondering about the color alternatives, dimensions of the product or other options.
The only caveat is that you should not overdo it, in other words, make the text useful to your visitors and not something that has been added only to improve search engine rankings. Don't just stuff the text with keywords.
Nick
Google analyzes the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image caption and dozens of other factors to determine the image content. Google also uses sophisticated algorithms to remove duplicates and ensure that the highest quality images are presented first in your results.
I'll agree that 70 images is a little hefty for one page. You might want to trim that in half if you can and create two pages. Even if they were only 1k each, that's 70k of images to load along with 70 calls to the server.
The image caption or title as you are referring to it as is very important. Just do a few searches in Google Image Search and you'll see what I mean. Also, the file name is of importance too. Many people who rely on image search (Stock Photos, etc.) know that they need to optimize their images from every aspect.
Anyone have any idea how Google "analyzes the text adjacent to the image"?
What if you use fixed pixel locations for different objects on your page (images, text, etc)? For example,
An image is here
"position:absolute; left:443px; top:347px; width:191px; height:145px"
The text box describing that image is here
"position:absolute; left:489px; top:547px; width:167px; height:14px"
How on earth can google tell that this "adjecent text" is related to the image? Ohhh I know how.......IT CAN'T!
Why do i have a feeling that Googlebot does not connect images to text based on location on the page (in terms of specific dimensions of where the object on the page is) but rather if the text is within the same cell in a table or layer as the image (or some other similar method of putting images and text in a same object)?
That would be quite a task to be able to determine what text objects are "related" to specific images on pages. It certainly would require some of the most advanced programming i have heard of, as well as some pretty substantial processing power for a Bot that indexes thousands of pages a day.
I think Google tried to explain something that it cannot do.
