how to optimize your pictures

How to optimize your images for Google image search (part 4)?

11
Jun

We already gave you 3 tips on optimization in Google Image Search

Today, we explain you how to check if your job on optimization of images is working, which means to see how many images on your website are indexed by Google. Like this, you can easely monitore the results of your hard work!
Let's see how to do (very easy..)

 
You just need to go on Google Image Search and type in the search box: site:picturesofchina.org (picturesofchina.org needs to be replaced by your own url)
The  site search operator will show you all (almost all, because actually Google will never show everything you want to know..) the images indexed by their servers. For example, here is a list of images indexed on Pictures of China.
 

How to optimize your images for Google image search (part 3)?

2
Jun

We have already given you two tips on how to optimize your images on Google Image Search, here is another one.
Make Your Image folder accessible to search engines
Be sure that your robots.txt file does not limit search engines from accessing your images files. As a matter of fact, this is very important if you want that your images got ranked on Google.
Moreover, if you want to improve your ranking in Google Image Search, you can also add a non javascript link (direct link) to the source of your picture.
Like this, Google will immediatly know where to find it.
If you are afraid someone could steal your image, then add a copyright on it, but do not protect the whole content of the directory, as you are sure Google will never find you...