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    • Caseman
      Caseman last edited by

      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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      • Vizergy
        Vizergy last edited by

        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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        • TheeDigital
          TheeDigital last edited by

          In addition to alt text,, make sure the image file name contains your keywords.

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          • Vizergy
            Vizergy @TheeDigital last edited by

            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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            • NakulGoyal
              NakulGoyal last edited by

              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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              • gmk1567
                gmk1567 last edited by

                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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                • firstconversion
                  firstconversion last edited by

                  You need to give your site address

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                  • Caseman
                    Caseman @firstconversion last edited by

                    http://standupguys.biz

                    I have alt titles, descriptions, captions, the whole nine. And the images aren't showing up at all.

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                    • PracticeFusion
                      PracticeFusion @Caseman last edited by

                      I'm seeing your images show up in my Google Image search:

                      http://bit.ly/PKAaaq

                      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:

                      http://bit.ly/NsNeS0

                      Perhaps there's no issue after all :).

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                      • Caseman
                        Caseman @Caseman last edited by

                        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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