Pictures

[blairsp]

I am relatively new here so please be gentle :-}

I have a website which shows pictures of widgets. I am trying to optimise my pages so that they can be found by the SE's. What appears to be happening is that in the meta tags I have "widgets pictures photographs" but the SE's especially google only picks up widgets pictures and ignores the photographs. Clearly I want them to pick up widgets photographs and widgets pictures (whatever is used as a search term) - any suggestions.

I have used alt tags on the pictures and descriptions of the pictures using bold where I can. However, there are only so many ways you can say this is a widget picture, here is a picture of a widget etc without being penalised

Before I forget should I use plural i.e. pictures rather than picture

Thanks in advance

[troels nybo nielsen]

Not quite sure if I understand your problem correctly. (I hope that's your fault and not mine. :) )

AFAIK most search engines put very little weight on what you write in your meta tags. So if you want your images to be associated with some specific words you should use those words at least one of these places: image names, alt tags or surrounding text. Which is what you have done. It's a question about optimization in general terms.

[blairsp]

Sorry perhaps I didn't make myself clear. I have added text around the pictures, I have also added alt tags. What is happening though is that I would like to be reasonably optimised in terms of both widgets pictures AND widgets photographs (depending on what terms the user types into the SE).

I have tried widgets photograph and picture, widgets picture photograph, etc as descriptions but no matter what terms I use it only picks up the first word after widgets and not the other. Am I doing something wrong. Also is it better to use plural e.g. photographs

[troels nybo nielsen]

Have you tried optimizing separate pages for your individual combinations of keywords? If you use "keyword1 keyword2 keyword3" you give yourself a handicap compared with those competitors that go for "keyword1 keyword3".