Google Images -- I just don't get it
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mrcolj
Joined: 2004-01-06
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Posted: Mon, 2008-04-07 17:51
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I have read every post about Google Images on this board, and just don't get it. There was a time when my main website had 8.5M listings on google, and even then I had 0 listings on google images stemming from Gallery2 (click here.) Everywhere I look on the board similar problems get a response of "be patient, they'll come," but they never have, and something's wrong. As it stands I now have 985 /gallery/ listings on google, and 0 on google images. Can anyone tell me what I can do to get my pictures on google images? Is there a magical SEO plugin that would help? Please don't troll back questioning why anyone would want their pictures on google images, or saying "nothing is magic." I can't think of any other potential trollism, except of course making fun of Mormons. Thanks in advance, America! |
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bump?
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Same here. I'm not sure what to do.
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never had any problems with mine.
if you're concerned, i'd suggest you register with google's webmaster tools to monitor how they spider your website.
you'll get better monitoring results / analysis when you use g2's google sitemap module.
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I don't have a solution for you, but am writing to report a similar problem. Perhaps someone can suggest a solution.
Google has indexed many of my images via Gallery and elsewhere. However, when Image Search is run, they don't show up. Apparently, Google feels, for whatever reason, that my images don't belong in Google Images - Safe Search...so these don't show up unless the searcher turns off his/her Safe Search option.
I have identified certain albums that *could* be inappropriate for some of the audience and have provided Google a list of these albums. Unfortunately, Google requires actual folders for the actual files so that they can put these in the *unsafe* category and mark the rest of my site as SAFE. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?hl=en&tid=65a31945a70e73b8&start=520
Now, I have found the folders where these files are stored
http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria_images/albums/Seeboden 2009
http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria_images/albums/WBPF08
http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria_images/albums/WBPF09
http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria_images/albums/Reklamok
http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria_images/albums/random_testfestes
http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria_images/albums/hirneves
(my Gallery 2 installation is at http://www.csillamvilag.com/galeria/galeria and works fine)
However, these folders or the files in them are not accessible by pointing my URL box to the correct address!! I get the error message Directory has no index file.
So, if someone can suggest how I can provide the correct folders for these albums to Google, I'd (hopefully) be able to have my images listed back in Google Image search. Please help!
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