Google Images not indexing other folders?

[norbiu]

OK, so I have a news site and keep all my images in the /images/ folder. About 60% of those images are indexed. That's not the problem.

Last year, I opened up a new section on the site with products. Each product has its page:

products/manufacturer/product-name/index.php

and to make things easier to organize, I decided to put the images in the same folder as the product page:

products/manufacturer/product-name/manufacturer-product-name-1.jpg
products/manufacturer/product-name/manufacturer-product-name-2.jpg
products/manufacturer/product-name/manufacturer-product-name-3.jpg

so the images aren't stored all in one folder, like I did with the news section.

I'm trying to understand why only 2% of the images are getting indexed. Yes, I've used the alt tag, title tag, keywords, every enhancement in the book.

Is Google having a hard time indexing the images because they're scattered around different folders? Is that a problem? Should I move the images to the /images/ folder?

[tedster]

Google Image Search has many mysteries. It's a lot slower, it's "rules" are not openly publicized, and there's some pretty extreme caution to support Safe Search filtering.

I work with sites that don't have dedicated image folders and they still get indexed pretty well. Still it might be worth a test to see if this is a factor or not.

[norbiu]

That would take me ages, but I waited ages to get these indexed, so it's worth a try.