Only 285 of 2,266 Images Indexed by Google

[Kingalan1]

Only 285 of 2,266 Images Indexed by Google. Images for our site are hosted on Amazons CDN cloud based hosting service. Our Wordpress site is on a virtual private server and has its' own IP address.  The number of indexed images has dropped substantially in the last year.

Our site is for a real estate brokerage firm. There are about 250 listing pages set to "no-index". Perhaps these contain 400 photos, so they do not account for why so few photos have been indexed.  The concern is that the low number of indexed images could be affecting overall ranking. The site URL is www.nyc-officespace-leader.com.

Is this issue something that we should be concerned about?

Thanks,
Alan

[OlegKorneitchouk]

My guess is that Google doesn't have enough clues as to what the images are and treating them all as the same. All of them have the same alt text ("View Slideshow"), image file names are just numbers & surrounding text is the same for each listing.

I recommend optimizing your images (e.g. on http://www.nyc-officespace-leader.com/listings/347-varick-st-office-lease-2267sf image filenames would be 181-varick-st-nyc-office-rental-1.jpg and have alt text = Commercial Office Space Rental at 181 Varick St NYC)

P.S. Why does URL say 347 Varick st yet page description say 181 Varick st?

[Kingalan1]

Hi Oleg:

Good observation. For some reason we can't label image filenames and alt text in Wordpress. Will be a priority to correct.

I wonder if having only a 220 photos indexed out of 2,200 could be a red flag for Google and be detrimental for ranking?

"347" is the listing number "181 Varick St" is the address. Listing number appears before the Street in the URL. We don't show the actual Street address in the URL. I wonder if Google could view this as contradictory information?  Thanks for picking up on on this, I never gave it any thought.

Thanks, Alan

[Kingalan1]

Does having a small percentage of images indexed by Google harm ranking? Less than 300 out of 2,200 seems low. Concerned it could be a red flag for low quality.

Thanks,
Alan

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Don't think its a red flag, just not getting the maximum benefit from having all of those images.