getting pictures listed on google

[Red Squirrel]

Is there any trick to getting pictures from my site listed on google (image search)

I have quite a few results for my site. here but no picture results if I click on image search. I have quite a lot of images in articles and stuff. For example, I have a telecomunication facility tour, and none of these pictures show up. Is there a trick to getting them listed, or does it just take more than months of patiance?

 

[hjo3]

I know it helps if you type in stuff for the "alt" element in the IMG tag... you might try that.

Like: <img src="061603_wadc_3.jpg" width="300" height="222" border="1" alt="Library of Congress">

This would prolly make Google image searches for "library of congress" more likely to turn up my image.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Thanks, was not sure about that part. Something I've been starting to do, I'll keep doing it. I just thought of something, the fact that the images are on dynamicly generated pages probably does not help. Google usually does not even list those pages - I got lucky since all my articles are listed. All my articles start with parser.php?article= I think I'll make myself a "cheat" script to make it look like it's folders, it's been done with invision board - just need to check out how they did it.

 

[titanmiller]

About the "alt" tag, I thought google doesnt look at any "search" tags, instead just looking at content?


Maybe I'm wrong
-Titan Miller

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yeah that's true, it does not look at meta tags that I know, not sure about alt. I know it does look at the file name since when I do an image search it is somewhat mostly pictures with the filename as keyword, but I know there's more to it.

 

[Oaf357]

Actually, Google does look at META tags it just doesn't put a significant amount of weight on them. Google does look at ALT tags as well and I would highly recommend using related keywords in the ALT tags themselves.

Another thing I would highly recommend is checking out WebmasterWorld. Read the TOS and search around before posting because chances are your issue has been addressed.

I hope that helps. If you'd like to discuss the Google algorithm a little more just let me know.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
Thanks, was not sure about that part. Something I've been starting to do, I'll keep doing it. I just thought of something, the fact that the images are on dynamicly generated pages probably does not help. Google usually does not even list those pages - I got lucky since all my articles are listed. All my articles start with parser.php?article= I think I'll make myself a "cheat" script to make it look like it's folders, it's been done with invision board - just need to check out how they did it.

Having foo?bar=blah in the url makes no difference. A page is a page.

 

[Oaf357]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
Having foo?bar=blah in the url makes no difference. A page is a page.

Wrong. Googlebot has some issues with dynamic pages. Google is working on it but currently Google tries to avoid dynamic pages. However, you can make your dynamic pages seem not so dynamic to Google, Amazon is a perfect example.