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Hi Danny, is there any way I can up my chances to get my images seen in the google image search? I'm not getting search results, I have descriptions and tags but they are not enough.
you can PM me if you like.
thank you,
savanna

Hi Savanna
You can see what images Google has indexed here:
http://images.google.com/images?q=site:savanna.mosaicglobe.com

While we can never be sure exactly how Google decides what images are more important than other (see article) the following tips will help:

1. Give meaningful names to your images. (GoldenAspenTrees.jpg )

2. Give long description tags to your images.
This would need to be added to your tag in HTML view.
Example: longdesc="Gold aspen tree leaves fall nature photography".

3. Larger images seem to get priority.

5. The title of the page where your image resides will also weight the images relevance.

Your HTML source code would look something like this:

Danny wrote:

> Hi Savanna
> You can see what images Google has indexed here:
> http://images.google.com/images?q=site:savanna.mosaicglobe.com
>
> While we can never be sure exactly how Google decides what images are more
> important than other (see article) the following tips will help:
>
> 1. Give meaningful names to your images. (GoldenAspenTrees.jpg )
>
> 2. Give long description tags to your images.
> This would need to be added to your tag in HTML view.
> Example: longdesc="Gold aspen tree leaves fall nature photography".
>
> 3. Larger images seem to get priority.
>
> 5. The title of the page where your image resides will also weight the images
> relevance.
>
> Your HTML source code would look something like this:
> src="http://mysite.mosaicglobe.com/files/image/GoldenAspenTrees.gif"
> alt="GoldenAspenTrees.gif" longdesc="Gold aspen tree leaves fall nature
> photography" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 10px;" />

Thanks Danny, funny that last bit of code only shows up when I click reply :) I will work on it. cheers, savanna

Hi Danny, Ok I can see which images google selects, is there any rhyme or reason why it selects some from savanna.mosaicglobe and others from savanna-art.com?
And is there any way that the text they select - to go with the image - can be controlled so I get more hits from it? they are totally random draws from the text and don't apply to the image at all - on all but one - which is the thumb of the reef painting.

Is there a way to have any control on the blurbs it selects from the text on the larger images? I'm creating an "about the paintings" page to add more descriptions and a behind the painting's inspiration... with the large images.
Thank you,
s.

Wow, those are random. I am afraid it's a mystery to me. I will have to do some more research into how Google images works. But most of Google's algorithms are a closely guarded secret so a lot of what we're doing is just educated guesses.