Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'image search'

Has Google Fixed The Image Search Filter?

In December 2007, we reported that Google's image search filter was a bit too sensitive and it filtered out many non-adult images as if they were adult images. We have new early reports from WebmasterWorld that some Webmasters are noticing...

Damage Your Competitors Google Image Rankings With Links

So we see that most SEOs believe a competitor can hurt your search rankings, we also wrote an article on How To Penalize Your Competitor's Site in Google but now we have a new WebmasterWorld thread on image search. The...

How Do You Get Your Images Out Of Google's SafeSearch Filter?

A WebmasterWorld thread has serious discussion on obtaining advice and tips on getting your images out of the Google SafeSearch filter. Basically, sometimes Google might label your images as being sexually explicit or not appropriate for the average searcher. If...

Very Explicit Porn Hits Google Universal Search

Warning, clicking on the following Google search result may return an image of extreme pornographic nature. The image is of a woman's vagina and is found on a pornographic site, but the image appears to be hosted on Google's Blogger...

Google Images Supports Site Filter Command

A WebmasterWorld thread discusses a not-so-talked-about feature about how to locate whether your images have been used (or stolen) on your domain. Ogletree writes: I just found out you can do a site:domain.com search in Google images and get a...

Revisiting Google Image Search's Face Filter

A new DigitalPoint Forums thread is discussing a feature on Google Image Search that most people do not know about. Did you know you can restrict your searches of images to those that just return faces? I did cover this...

What's the Best Format to Name Images for Search Engines?

When you name images so that they can show up in image search, what's your preference? What do you think is the best naming convention of the three below? actress-name-sexy-pic actress_name_sexy_pic actressnamesexypic That is the question at Search Engine Watch...

Google Image Updates Ranking of Images?

A WebmasterWorld thread reports some changes to the rankings of Google images. One member reports; Last Monday Google image search was giving me 32% of all referrals. Today it's 16%. So definitely a big change. I also noticed some changes...


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