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Hi,

Thanks for those who have offered advice so far.

I am looking an buy the services of an SEO expert with experience in getting vast numbers of images indexed by Google Images. If that is you or you know someone who could help, get in touch.

Richard

Thanks,

I think we could sharpen up the title and some other things.

However, we are doing reasonably well with indexing of pages - it's the images that seem to be so slow.

We do have image sitemaps (eg http://bit.ly/RDHmyo) but our experiments show that this is not much help.

This sitemap above was submitted about 14 days ago and has had about 2 million pages indexed but only 5,000 images indexed.

It feels like I have my foot on the hose pipe

Richard

Thanks for looking at this.

We are adding sitemaps "slowly" - ie 10 million at a time. eg: http://bit.ly/RDHmyo

This stemap was submitted about 14 days ago and has had about 2 million pages indexed but only 5,000 images indexed.

We will add another this week.

I think you may well be right about crawl budget. I have ensured that the bots are almost exclusively focused on these pages (well over 90% of crawls are of these pages). I am assuming that the only way t increase budget is to increase authority. Is that right?

Hi,

I am working on a website with a large number (millions) of images. For the last five months Ihave been trying to get Google Images to crawl and index these images (example page: http://bit.ly/1ePQvyd).  I believe I have followed best practice in the design of the page, naming of images etc. Whilst crawlng and indexing of the pages is going reasonably well with the standard crawler, the image bot has only crawled about half a million images and indexed only about 40,000.

Can anyone suggest what I could do to increase this number 100 fold?

Richard