google image indexing problem

korn

hello, i've a little trouble, i created my sitemap, google is indexing the pages of the site, but not the images, in fact if you search in google image my site only 2 thumbnail appear. How I make to index the photos?

ferentz

Same problem here. I'm having trouble finding any of my images in google. The website is two months old and it is fully indexed by google (which brings me a good healthy trafic). Any idea why this is hapening?

acrylian

Did you look at the robots.txt file that comes with Zenphoto. This by default disallows everything, incl. the albums folder and the cache folder so Google & Co are not allowed to index those. So of course the sitemap will not help then, too.

You might want to allow those folders (some people might not want the full images to be indexed).

ferentz

I have disabled the disallow commands for cache and uploaded folders. I guess it won't take long to see some of my images in the search results.

Thanks for advice.

acrylian

I might take some days until Google indexes again. If this not helps Google results become en even bigger mystery..;-)

ferentz

Something is blocking google to index my images... I still don't see any results when using my keywords or the actual picture names in image search. Instead I can see some of my images which have been posted by a few blogers quite recently.

If I query "site:www.adrianmoisa.ro" for pages I get over 300 results, while for images I get "did not match any documents".

Here it is my code in robots.txt as shown in google webmaster tools.

`
User-agent: *
Disallow: /albums/
Disallow: /themes/
Disallow: /zp-core/
Disallow: /zp-data/
Disallow: /page/search/
Disallow: /rss.php
Disallow: /rss-comments.php
Disallow: /README.html
Disallow: /rss-news-comments.php
Disallow: /rss-news.php
Sitemap: http://www.adrianmoisa.ro/sitemap.php
`
EDIT:

I'll try appending:

`
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /cache/
Allow: /uploaded/
`

acrylian

Ok, let us know if the appending of allow helps. It should of course...

ferentz

Issue fixed. Today I saw the first visitors coming from google images. I checked and I have 49 images allready indexed. I guess it wont take long untill I'll have all of them indexed. It seems that google images takes a bit longer to index images (in my case, 3 months).

acrylian

Thanks for the update. Glad that we finally got it right.

clabedan

Same problem here... Nothing indexed and I have 109,000 pics in zenphoto!
I have just changed my robots.txt (initially totally empty) to
User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /cache/
Allow: /uploaded/

What puzzles me is that the /uploaded/ directory is empty...

Any idea why?
site is: www.leblogauto.com

Thanks for your help, it's a shame not to have all these pics not referenced, particularly since the pics uploaded through Wordpress get referenced in Google Images within 30mns sometimes...
Christophe

acrylian

Since your installed Zenphoto in subfolder "zenphoto" the robots.txt needs to be in the root of your website (on per site).

Why does it puzzle you that the uploaded directory is empty? If you did not upload anyhting to it it is of coures (it is not for images, those are in /albums...).

Generelly it is hard to tell from here why it does not index. Might depend on your site/combi with the rest of the site and other things.

clabedan

Thanks Acrylian,
I already have a robots.txt in the root of my wordpress blog, should I delete the robots.txt located at the root of zenphoto?

acrylian

As far as I know you should have only one robots.txt per site (domain), so yes.