SEO friendly images

Pierrot

Hi All!

I have a question regarding search engine optimization and Zenphoto...

1. Not a single one of the 697 images in my gallery appear in Google Images. I haven't changed the example_robots.txt at all. Is there anything I can do here?

You can view my site here.

As always, thank you in advance!

digitome

how did you get your urls in all lowercase?

Pierrot

Hmmm... lowercase url's? I never gave it much thought! It might be accidental!

Any takers for my question above?

acrylian

The example_robots.txt does nothing unless you rename it to robots.txt by the way. Anyway, I don't have any idea, I could imagine that there are loads of reasons for that. Google may just not be finished with your site.

Pierrot

Sure, I got that about renaming the example_robots.txt - am I wrong to understand that it is meant to prevent rather than prompt robots?

Also, as I include a photo in my gallery should I be entering any data into any field other than title? I mean, would that help me with Google? I generally never enter image description or custom data. Would that help?

Thanks!

P

Pierrot

Sorry, just one more thought...

Does it make a difference how I name the jpg?

Are the following all the same as far as google is concerned?

pictureofdog.jpg
picture-of-dog.jpg
Picture of dog.jpg

I'm more inclined to used the latter as it means I won't have to change anything within Zenphoto. It come up as http://phauxshow.com/gallery/Picture+of+dog.jpg.php in the URL

I know that's a lot of questions! The good news is that I'm running out of things to ask!

Thanks!

acrylian

Sure, I got that about renaming the example_robots.txt - am I wrong to understand that it is meant to prevent rather than prompt robots?
No, absolute correct. I just mentioned it.

I am by no means a SEO expert and most of the time I feel the importancce a little too hyped (I am google so I am?...:-)), but indeed your images don't show up.
I believe google liks "picture-of-dog.jpg" more than "Picture of dog.jpg". And it may help to enter meta tags in the head of your theme files, too.

Maybe this I just foud by accident may be of help: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-web-developers-seo-cheat-sheet

Pierrot

Thanks for all of your help - I really appreciated it! Building this website has been one problem solving task after another but in my experience a solution is always found. I'll have a better look at that link after lunch and post any solution I find.

Pierrot