[SOLVED] Get Google To Index & List Images On Google Images

[govicinity]

CMS Made Simple™ 1.11.11 “San Cristobal”
CGExtensions 1.42.2
CGSmartImage 1.17
ListIt 1.4.1
CGSimpleSmarty 1.7.4
AdvancedContent 0.9.4.3
AceEditor 1.0
Gallery 2.0.1
JQueryTools 1.2.6
SiteMapMadeSimple 1.2.8
Uploads 1.18.4

This is a general question about Google Images, is there a good way to get Google to index your images well when using CGSmartImage/Gallery? I'd like to get as many images listed on Google Images as possible, all images are given relevant filenames so should be being listed, but only non-dynamically generated/ones not using CGSmartImage/ones not being handled by the Gallery are getting listed. Is there any way to add images to the sitemap? Or has anyone else got a good recommendation to do this? Just thought getting some of the images onto Google Images would be great a SEO tactic, so thought I'd raise the question.

Obviously we love using CGSmartImage as it keeps our clients from being able to add huge/disproportionate images to the lovely sites we've designed, so we don't want to stop using it.

[JohnnyB]

What's the source of the image element look like for one's not being indexed?
Can you browse to it directly? Is the alt="" ok?
Do you have any hotlinking protection on the server or in any of the directories?

[govicinity]

All statically pulled (hard coded) images have alt tags, all of these are showing well.

The CGSmartImage path is (one example... it's very long!):

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alt="Nissan Europe"/></li>

The data image ones don't show as well, occasionally they do, but most don't.

There are no instructions in the .htaccess file to stop images being found by Google Images.

I was wondering if there is a way that we can get images added to the sitemap.xml or similar when we add them to our CMS site? Just to make it super easy for Google to index them? Just a thought, maybe through a UDT or similar?

[Jo Morg]

You might want to add the noembed=1 option on the CGSmartImage tag of images that are to be indexed or that are too large (for page speed optimization).
HTH

[govicinity]

@Jo, thanks for this, I did not know that, I'll try that out and see how it goes, thanks for the heads up.

I'm always learning something new with CMSMS, nice to know that there's always more to learn!

[govicinity]

Is there any way to get the names of your images to keep the original naming rather than CGSmartImage changing it to img-3322444xxxwhatevercgsmartimageschangesitto.jpg ? This would be great for SEO as all our images are given filenames that apply to the image content?

[govicinity]

Cleared the main website cache and also the CGSmartImageCach, but still getting the img-1245322432etcforthename.jpg

[velden]

Is there any way to get the names of your images to keep the original naming rather than CGSmartImage changing it to img-3322444xxxwhatevercgsmartimageschangesitto.jpg ? This would be great for SEO as all our images are given filenames that apply to the image content?

Short answer: no

[govicinity]

Shame, but thought I'd ask, you never know! I'll mark this as solved then as the main question was answered.

[JohnnyB]

I think one approach is to make each image a link to itself or a link to a larger version of itself. That way, Google has something to grab onto.

Maybe adding the title="" parameter in the tag might help SEO for images.

You can make the alt and title tags dynamic in nature.. For example, they could contain the name of the site, the title of the page, and any other data that you want to add to it.

Here are some guidelines:
http://accessibility.psu.edu/imageshtml

[govicinity]

@JohnnyB, thanks for the further input. It would be great to make the alt tag dynamic, I have often thought of trying to do that, possibly by using the actual file name of the image itself (which works well with good filenames, and then use hyphens between the words in the filenames as google sees hyphens as spaces).

The other thing that I have often thought about is the way CMSMS uses name="" on images, I'd really like to remove this as this makes images on the page not conform to W3c compliance standards, maybe turn it to class="" or id="" instead, please see below:

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<img src="http://www.mywebsite.com/uploads/_CGSmartImage/img-2e36800bde30f063db1fd066b5d2eb13.jpg" name="Header_Page_Image" alt="My alt text here"/>

[JohnnyB]

The CGSmartImage module's help has options for name="" and such. You can craft your own <img> tag and use just the path and filename output of CGSmartImage instead.