Not being indexed by Google

Image links an issue?

[johnblack]

Hi, I have created a brand new site and Google has indexed the home page. However Google doesn't seem to want to index the other pages in the site. The main difference I can see with this site compared to other sites I have created is that the other pages are linked to via image links from the home page rather than by text links?

Does Google not crawl image links?

<edit>I'm not blond honest, this should be in the Google Search section. Apologies to mods, could it pleased be moved.</edit>

[Geoffrey james]

Hi johnblack

Crawlers do not see what is on your actual page, ie:your images.
All they do is crawl the text/code that makes up your page. If you have an image, and the code behind it clearly links the image to another page within your site that link, and what the image is called ect is what they see.

IE:

<a href="contact.htm"><img src="images/telephone.gif" width="20 height="20" alt="contact us link" /></a>

in the example here, its a link to your contact page with contact form on, and i have used a picture of a telephone as an example.

crawlers see your link <a href></a> and what image you have, where it can be found within your site, and what size it is. Also what its called should a user not get the image there is aditional imformation so they know what SHOULD be there, this is very important.

Hope this helps

Geoff