Images not indexed by Google Images, but I receive traffic from there

[Xyos]

I do not know what it is happening.
The images on my blog are not indexed by Google Images , but I receive traffic from Google Images. Very strange!
There are certain keywords and I receive traffic everyday from Google Images, but I have no image indexed.
Can someone explain what is this?

[tedster]

If you're getting traffic, then I'd say your images are indexed on at least one of Google's data centers - but maybe not the data center you get.

[Xyos]

Thank you.
What means datacenters?
When I enter site:www.domain.com in google images search I cannot see any of the images on the website...
How can I get traffic if they are not indexed...?

Please let me know.

[tedster]

Google operates many data centers at many different IP addresses. The indexes at each of the data centers are not always coordinated. When you go to google.com, various factors includng geographic location and load balancing will determine which data center you get connected to.

[KVeil]

Is there some way I can:

- find out which data center I am getting the traffic from?

- find out which data center is responding to my query?

- set which data center I want to query?

K

[tedster]

You can use Firefox with the ShowIP add-on extension installed. That will show you the responding IP address, and because it displays the IP address in real time, it's more precise than trying to pinggoogle.com just before or after the actual search.

However, some additional processing still happens after the raw data comes from the indexs at that data center. So if you navigate directly to that IP address for your search, instead of going to google.com, you may still see different rankings for the two approaches.

[KVeil]

Thanks, tedster!

It seems the four IP addresses that the ShowIP plug-in shows me for google.com.au (74.125.19.104, 74.125.19.99, 74.125.19.103 and 74.125.19.147) all go to google.com (no .au TLD).

How does Google handle the various TLDs? More importantly, how can I see what Google SERP a web surfer in the US or England will see compared to Australia? I get to travel a bit and I get the impression that my SERPs are different depending on continent I am in ...

Hope this is not too off-topic...

K

[tedster]

The various TLDs are each handled differently. Google.de is particularly unique in many aspects. And google.com is handled differently according to location as well, even for different areas within the US.

Here's a recent thread where there was more discussion, including the idea of querying Google through a proxy server: Completely different results from different location [webmasterworld.com]

I don't think we've wandered too far off-topic here, since there clearly is some version of Google Image search somewhere in the world that is sending Xyos some traffic. All of this variation may play into that scenario.

[foodstyling]

Did you check if your images are 'adult' filtered? Mine are, altough the only subject on the site is food and recipes

[Xyos]

foodstyling
I did not check if they are adult filtered...
How can I do that?
The pictures are not adult anyway...

[foodstyling]

Go to advanced image search and choose no filtering from SafeSearch, moderate image filtering is the default choice by Google

[Xyos]

foodstyling thanks

I just discovered that I have some images indexed there.

On my blog I have a few images which could be considered adult by google, but the others are not at all...

What should I do to have my images indexed without filter?
Anybody knows?

[foodstyling]

I should not know whysome images are 'adult' filtered and othos no. All of the images on my site are filtered and all of those images are about food and recipes. So I am also wondering which type of criteria Google handles for this type of filtering.

[piatkow]

Among other things adult filtering appears to check for certain character strings. These are not necessarily as distinct words and are sometimes legit syllables in other words. For example Essex or S#*$!horpe (at least one of those will get censored here).

I don't know if G use it but one adult filtering technique is to look for large areas of certain colours which would imply naked flesh. If your recipe site shows close ups of pale meat then that could also be an issue.

I had the same problem on my site and contacted Google direct and they reclassified it. That was some years ago, I don't know if it is that easy these days.