WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs? en Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:52:35 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 phoxis on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408868 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:58:42 +0000 phoxis 408868@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @ismailimail: To get the crawler's view use a text based browser like lynx. Or add google webmaster tools and then from the left menu bar select Labs->Fetch as Google Bot and enter the page you want to see as a google bot, click fetch, and then click on the link appears in the below list. Read http://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/ to know how to add your blog in google webmaster tools.

]]> timethief on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408824 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:12:18 +0000 timethief 408824@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @puntacanavacationpackages
As wordpress.COM blogs are non-commercial blogs that cannot either drive traffic to third party sites or have advertising I do not comprehend the context for comment regarding "marketing prospects".

]]> puntacanavacationpackages on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408823 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:08:50 +0000 puntacanavacationpackages 408823@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ is slow but effective and not competitive from the marketing prostect

]]> timethief on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408788 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:14:22 +0000 timethief 408788@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Google searches for images also bring my blogs in hits as well. I don't use captions but I agree that using them can't hurt.

]]> raincoaster on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408725 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:01:39 +0000 raincoaster 408725@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Google image searches are one of the major referrers to my blog, and YES, always use keywords, description etc. I'm not sure how the Caption code adds to that, but it sure can't hurt.

]]> timethief on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408575 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:31:44 +0000 timethief 408575@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That was a poor example :( Yes, you can and ought to use appropriate and relevant keywords when naming images.

]]> timethief on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408574 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:28:48 +0000 timethief 408574@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Right. The software doesn't "make up" ALT text because like the crawler it's not human and cannot "see". We bloggers have to insert the alternate text and the description. The name you give to the image does make a difference. Be crystal clear. Example: old man sitting on rock is better than "grandfather".

]]> ismailimail on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408542 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 03:16:30 +0000 ismailimail 408542@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the tips, I just realized that wordpress.com isn't adding Alt text unless I go to the second tab and add it myself. BTW, does naming your image a certain way makes any difference?

]]> timethief on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408514 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:31:02 +0000 timethief 408514@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The Google image crawler is a slow crawler. It cannot "see" images and requires descriptive tags and text to index properly. Without an ALT tag, and description Google will likely fail to index your images correctly according to the keywords you select. Note that it takes up to 6 months for Google image search to find your pictures, but it will miss your pictures altogether if you don’t use ALT tags and the description field correctly. I have dedicated a post to this important topic http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/blogging-images-enhance-your-posts/

]]> ismailimail on "Google indexing images from wordpress.com blogs?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/google-indexing-images-from-wordpresscom-blogs#post-408512 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:24:19 +0000 ismailimail 408512@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Is anyone here aware of best practices for images SEOs? The blogs here are indexed well by Google but the image searches are not that great. What am I missing?

My naming scheme for images almost always contains dashes between two words and assuming alt-text is provided by WordPress when we insert.

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