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I recently launched a site that sports a lot of images. Well it's an image site. You go there to view images on specific topics. The google search console alway
by lofaszvanitt 2y ago
I recently launched a site that sports a lot of images. Well it's an image site. You go there to view images on specific topics. The google search console always complains that there is very few text on the page and it only indexed 1/6th of the image pages (it doesn't even fetch the images itself... who knows whether it's a good or bad sign ;|). Go figure, this is an image site.
Should I start to write text next to each image, like:
"Mech approaches another dark, very evil looking mech on a bright day and swings its laser sword to decapitate the evil one."
Gimme a break. For 5K+ images... :D. The topic, title and description is not enough, it needs more text to believe that this is what the images are about. No, your images will not be indexed, will not be included in the image search results, because you are not part of the exclusive club. No monopoly here.
Bing webmaster tools tells me that there are no highly ranked sites that link to my content, and there should be :D. I just started the site, how would there be
any linkage to it?! Are they insinuating that I should create fake sites to promote my content or maybe pay for seo? No monopoly here either.
Yandex... I can't really figure out whether their indexing works or not, it sometimes complains, then doesn't do anything for weeks. Then it comes up with another made up problem that is nonexistent. It acts like a drunkard.
I haven't tried Baidu, because they need some local phone number and they clearly can't send activation SMS to Europe.
Next I'll try with a news site and write a blog post about my experiences. Truly interesting times.
- jsnell 2y agoSo, I'm kind of confused about what you expect to happen. You've got a pile of images with no descriptive text. What kind of query do you think would make a search engine include one of those pages in the result pages? They need something to work with. At most it sounds like it could be people using your site name in the query. But that only happens when you have users, you can't bootstrap your popularity like that. And if there is no set of reasonable queries where your pages are likely results, what is the point of of indexing them?
- lofaszvanitt 2y agoThere is title, descriptions, tags... If you flow it around with generated text, because that's what people are doing to game the system, it will be more reliable or what did you miss? :D
- iggldiggl 2y ago> You've got a pile of images with no descriptive text. What kind of query do you think would make a search engine include one of those pages in the result pages? They need something to work with. Although Google these days definitely runs image recognition and OCR while indexing images for its image search.