Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'images'

There is only so much CSS can accomplish with making headlines pretty. If you want to give your headlines a pretty font that not all computers support, then you need to go with graphics. But as an SEO, you don't...

Posted on July 16, 2009 8:24 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion started from a webmaster of a five year old e-commerce site, which had seen a drop in their Google Image search traffic, only to notice that their images are still in the Google results, but...

Posted on April 10, 2009 7:25 AM

Since 2005, we have reported signs of Google placing ads on their image search service. In May 2008, Google said they would run ads on image search and then signs of text ads on image search back in December. But...

Posted on January 16, 2009 7:51 AM

Ever since Universal Search hit Google, we have been noticing flavors of video thumbnails and static images left aligned on the Google search results. A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around this latest format and some are happy with it, while...

Posted on January 5, 2009 8:18 AM

We have complained time and time again about Google showing inappropriate images , including explicit porn and other nudity in the Google search results. But it has been getting better overall, that is until I spotted a thread at DigitalPoint...

Posted on December 30, 2008 8:10 AM

The Official Google Blog announced on Friday that a new option is available for searchers: the ability to search for images by a specific style. For example, line art is obviously not the same as a photograph -- and now...

Posted on December 22, 2008 9:46 AM

This is pretty awesome stuff for history photo enthusiasts. Google has shared great information that it is now hosting a never-seen-before LIFE photo archive. The LIFE photo archive photographs date back to the 1750s! Stunning? Absolutely. And fascinating, too. One...

Posted on November 19, 2008 9:36 AM

A Google Groups thread has discussion around how to properly use the alt attribute and title attribute for your web page images. Of course, Google recommends that you make sure to make them as useful for the end users. So...

Posted on November 17, 2008 7:24 AM

Earlier this month, Bill Slawski wrote about how search engines use images to rank web pages. He explains that search engines often look at text, alt tags, and similar contextual elements to rank images. He also refers to a Microsoft...

Posted on September 18, 2008 10:30 AM

Conduct a search for educating in Google and you will see an image of a teacher standing over a student holding a small rod, with the student's pants down leaning over a desk. This is not what one would expect...

Posted on July 23, 2008 7:49 AM

If you had to pick between using an Alt attribute in your images versus a Title attribute in your images, I would go with an Alt attribute. The alt attribute is basically "alternate text" for your image, it is used...

Posted on June 25, 2008 7:40 AM

I continue to report porn on Google over here, at Search Engine Land, via email to Googlers, via Twitter and Plurk and so on. But it seems that this is a battle Google is not winning. Why is this such...

Posted on June 24, 2008 7:14 AM

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...

Posted on June 12, 2008 7:29 AM

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...

Posted on June 2, 2008 7:50 AM

In September 2005, we reported that members were seeing image ads with Google Image Results. It seems that this is on the horizon and will be tested (and possibly rolled out) anytime now. As Bloomberg reports, "Display ads may work...

Posted on May 21, 2008 9:36 AM

The New York Times reports that "Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages." The algorithm, dubbed VisualRank, weighs...

Posted on April 29, 2008 11:06 AM

A WebmasterWorld member asks if there's any penalty for adding H2 text (4 words) for the search engines because his logo is displayed in an image. The answer seems unclear. Tedster responds that he's asked Google twice about this --...

Posted on April 25, 2008 10:02 AM

A short WebmasterWorld thread asks if links from logos or images give off any link popularity amongst the search engines. WebmasterWorld Link Development moderator, pageoneresults, replies that although text links are preferred, "you are getting the next best thing which...

Posted on January 18, 2008 7:51 AM

The news this past weekend is that a patent filed by Google in June has surfaced where the search engine giant intends to use more sophisticated search techniques to discern text within images. InformationWeek talks about the patent, known as...

Posted on January 7, 2008 9:27 AM

A Google Groups thread asks if there's any such penalty for using the z-index HTML attribute underneath images. Would that be deceiving the search engines if you're putting text underneath an image that is not apparent to the visitor? Bergy...

Posted on November 15, 2007 10:02 AM

What do you suppose would be the problem if your images are not showing up in Google Image Search? Let's review the scenario: a webmaster has a site that has purely G-rated images, but his images are not appearing in...

Posted on November 14, 2007 9:06 AM

Last week, Newsweek reported that the Google "algorithm" paired up two African American leaders with monkeys, as the screenshot suggests: Is Google racist? They fault this on their algorithms. Other bad image-text links are inevitable. Newsweek cites a few more...

Posted on November 5, 2007 8:47 AM

How does one rank in the Google Image Search Engine? A Cre8asite Forums member asks this question and a bunch of good advice is dispensed. For one, filename, alt text, and surrounding text is important. EGOL says that while on-page...

Posted on September 27, 2007 8:20 AM

A very interesting discussion has emerged on WebmasterWorld about link equity from images or text links. What's better? Do image links pass PageRank? Do they imply trust? According to moderator pageoneresults, both links pass equity, but image links are not...

Posted on August 29, 2007 7:14 AM

Last month, Barry wrote an interesting post about how you can refine your Google Image search results to show only faces. For example, by adding "&imgtype=face" to the end of a search string, you could find only faces of people....

Posted on August 16, 2007 9:30 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread asks a fairly basic SEO question. The member asked if the name of the image makes a difference in how a page might rank. Does the name of the image(s) on your page have...

Posted on July 18, 2007 7:19 AM

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...

Posted on June 22, 2007 10:13 AM

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...

Posted on June 18, 2007 9:18 AM

It appears Google Images has changed their design and some of the usability of the pages. Now if you do a search at Google Images, such as on pineapple, you no longer see the image source details, including url source,...

Posted on January 24, 2007 7:37 AM

You conducted a Google News Search, let's say on Yahoo, and up come news results related to Yahoo!. But you see those images next to the articles? Where do they come from? That is the question a WebmasterWorld thread asks....

Posted on January 24, 2007 7:26 AM

Ever since Yahoo! took a stance against images near their contextual ads, it has appeared Google has done the same. Many threads discussed that Google no longer felt it was acceptable to put images near the ads, because they unfairly...

Posted on December 14, 2006 7:21 AM

A DigitalPoint Forums thread reports that Google is indexing and ranking YouTube results in Google Images. An example search that brings up results is [+"good times with weapons"]. I currently see four YouTube results displaying, there is also a screen...

Posted on October 23, 2006 7:45 AM

Ever want to see images on Google Images fly around the page? Well now you can. Spotted at SEO Home, you can view green trees at Google Images and then type in the JavaScript code found here in the URL...

Posted on October 12, 2006 11:42 AM

Google released this thing known as Google Image Labeler, it basically pins user vs. user to label images from Google images. The way you score points is if you both label the image with the same label. Here is my...

Posted on September 4, 2006 9:32 AM