How to get listed on Google Image Search

[Sime]

you've been through all 18,800 images and can't find yours?

[Rikluz]

Funny, but I'll play along.

One image that has been there 2,5 month is this one:
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And no, I can't find it nor any other image with that name.

[dakwegmo]

Originally Posted by Rikluz

I don't understand why this shows 3 of my images as the first ones.

site:blogspot.com "dancers in motion"

When searching for only "dancers in motion" they still appear on the first page. Those are the only images that I have listed on Google Image Search. I have no idea why those are there but not the others.

If google is finding some of your images, then it is indexing your site, but has likely determined the content on your page is not sufficiently unique to include in search listings. One of the most important measures of a page's rank within google is the number of links to your site or an individual posts. If you do a search for link:rikluz.blogspot.com, google finds no inbound links to your site. That alone will put you in a pretty bad spot for getting images listed. Then look at factors like this page: World of Rikluz: Nokia N82 There are seven images listed, all of them have pretty generic ALT tag text, and four of them have the exact same text. Also, there's nothing on the page to give context to those images. The title of the page and the post is the model name for a cell phone, and the only other text on the page is the instruction to click the photos for a larger view.

Google doesn't list every single image it finds. It lists the most relevant. That you have any images turning up in an image search is evidence google is crawling your site and finding your images. That all of your images aren't listed indicates that you should probably spend more time doing basic SEO stuff like ensuring relevant content, and getting people to link to your site.

[Rikluz]

First I didn't have that much thought in making the blog search engine friendly as you clearly can see in that post with pictures taken with the cellphone. I went through more than half of the posts, latest ones, and made them more unique and relevant. I didn't have more time at that moment and after that I just wanted to see what the differense would be compared to the pages that I did fix. None of those have gotten listed yet though so I might need to give it more time as mentioned earlier by Sime.

It was written on a Google help page that if the crawler finds no relevant data for the image, it will index it with file name only. That means the images should still get listed even if they don't seem that relevant to the naked eye when looking at the source code.

The images it did list, only information I had was "Dancers in motion" as post topic and the same text as ALT info for all 3 images. That seemed to be enough for those at least. I agree that I should spend more time with SEO stuff and I will when I feel better and have more time.

This weekend I have 8 hours + 8 hours photographing to do and then 3 hours studio work. Add some editing time on top of that.