How does Google Index Images?

Well thats an interesting question, How Does Google Index Images?
Google Maybe the most comprehensive image search provider of the web. But some webmasters don't know how to get their images indexed by Google.

Googlebot as we all know ignores images. So, how the damm it has an image search?

If your site is "Search Engine Friendly" and is a bit old, then Google must index its images too.A bit old site is required because Google dosen't update the Image Index "frequently"

If you are an impatient Webmaster, like me, Google Webmasters have an option for Enhanced Image Search. If you choose to enable enhanced image search, Google will use tools such as Google Image Labeler to associate the images included in your site with labels that will improve indexing and search quality of those images

For those who don't know about Google Image Labeler.Google Image Labeler is a new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results.

In this You'll be randomly paired with a partner who's online and using the feature. Over a 90-second period, you and your partner will be shown the same set of images and asked to provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see. When your label matches your partner's label, you'll earn some points and move on to the next image until time runs out. After time expires, you can explore the images you've seen and the websites where those images were found. And we'll show you the points you've earned throughout the session.

it is not necessary that you do a bit of "labeling" to get your images indexed.Few more tips are that you

  • Make sure the page topic corresponds to the search term
  • Make an image of standard size{like 800 x 600 }
  • Make the image in .jpg or .gif format.{Not necesarry, but recommended }
  • Use the search term in the alt attribute, the title attribute and make sure that you have included the width and height declarations

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    I've only had 7 out of my 800 images indexed. My site's been up 7 months. Any ideas?

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  12. Great info, image indexing can be an alternative source of untapped traffic. Maybe i should start a hype called Image marketing, lol. I think google uses the image name and the alternative text to index them, so its always good to just use hyphenation in your image name, like my-dead-dog-carcass.jpg instead of mydeaddogcarcass.jpg

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  13. After 3 months of existing my website I had maybe 80 pictures indexed. Now i have only 14 indexed. I don´t understand it.

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  14. Maybe this is caused due too little traffic :(

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  15. Google index for first images from pages with big pagerank and later another images from website. And when nobody click on them when they are in index then remove them from there.

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  24. what you said about Google image labeler is a new information to me and thank-you for it. do you have any idea how to submit an image sitemap in Google Webmasters like the ordinary sitemap. Is there any other way to check the indexed images in our blogs.


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