My Images Aren't Indexed By Goolge
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My site is indexed by google, and there hasn't really been much of a problem with my content, but now I am noticing that none of our images are coming up in the images searches of google. I mean none.
I have even typed in the alt text of the image verbatim and nothing shows up.
I use wordpress if this helps anyone. Any advice would be awesome, Thanks a lot.
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I see that. Thanks. Still though, thats only about 12 images, and the rest are videos, we have something like 400 images on the site.
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I'm seeing your images show up in my Google Image search:
Looks like your images are getting indexed.
In fact, even when doing a search for "yard cleaned of wood" I see one of your images:
Perhaps there's no issue after all :).
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I have alt titles, descriptions, captions, the whole nine. And the images aren't showing up at all.
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You need to give your site address
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Important items to get images indexed:
1. Al text with the keywords
2. Image file name with the descriptive text
3. Image site map
For better user experience:
1. Good quality photos
2. Lossless compression
3. Declaring width and height
4. Surrounding text or caption
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Since you said you are using Wordpress, try implementing http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-image-sitemap/ or another similar plugin. Once you do that, check in Webmaster Console how many images are indexed. You might also want to try doing a site:yourdomain.com search at images.google.com My guess is your images are indexed, but not ranking.
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Also - I have noticed that Google+ Local is showing EXIF data for images... I suppose that means that Google is reading it so I have started adding titles, comments etc... to the image properties (not in the img tag but in the image). I have only started testing this but it could help as well.
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In addition to alt text,, make sure the image file name contains your keywords.
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I thought this was a good article about getting images indexed in Google - maybe it will help you: http://www.masternewmedia.org/how-to-get-your-images-indexed-by-google-image-search/
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