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06-09-2005, 04:23
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Right turn, Clyde
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 377
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Google Images
Hi all, One of my friends sites is having an image picked up by Google images but we're not sure how... The page the image is on is called 'widgets.htm' and the image is called 'whatever.jpg'. The alt text is 'widgets' and the title text is 'blah'. The image appears on Google for the search 'widgets'. AFAIK, there's no way of submitting images? Does anyone have any information on this? everything was great til i got here
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06-09-2005, 04:34
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i'm done, son
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 12,262
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Not 100% sure but if the alt text says "widgets" it would make sense for the image to turn up on a GIS for "widgets". I believe that Google indexes images just like it does HTML. In that it finds an image, checks the alt text, and indexes the image. Oft times I use robots.txt to block Google from looking in image folders. Someone correct me if I'm wrong - I'm just guessing that's what happens. |
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06-09-2005, 04:38
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Right turn, Clyde
Join Date: Mar 2003
Posts: 377
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that's what i'm thinking: it must be the alt text or the relevant body text. i always thought images were only picked up if they were hyperlinks but evidently i'm wrong  everything was great til i got here
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06-09-2005, 04:40
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I Ain't Losing Any Sleep™
Join Date: Apr 2003
Posts: 5,236
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google crawls and indexes images just like it does pages. If you don't want it to, add a robots.txt to the root directory including the following. Code:
To get google to remove stuff it's already indexed you have to use it's removal tool...(you need to sign up)... http://services.google.com:8882/urlc...&lastcmd=login |
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