Does missing image on page prevent indexing?

[latimer]

we have a number of pages that pull logos from a folder and then place on pages. many of the logos are currently not yet available and so where the image is supposed to be there is the box with red x denoting it is "not available".

we are fixing this, getting images out there, but wanting to determine if this explains why only about 23% of these pages are being indexed the past few months that this has been occurring, compared to 70 - 80% of other types of pages on the site being indexed?

[tedster]

It certainly hasn't prevented indexing historically. However, it does make for a poor user experience, so who knows if some day it will be in the mix. I have always tried to used and image of text in situations like this, saying "logo soon to be available" or something like that,

[blend27]

Why not comeup with naming conventions for the images/logos and then serve the same image with predetermined file name via a serverside script?

[Jonesy]

Do search engines -- when indexing -- even bother to pull images?

[tedster]

Not on any one crawl, no .But Google has an imagebot that crawls the images at another time, and all of the crawl results from all of the googlebots end up in one shared cache and they do get evaluated as a whole.