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search engines arn't finding images
Posted: Fri 2. Jul 2010, 17:34
by swisscheese
Hi all
Is it normal that google, bing, yahoo etc. don't find any entries if I'm searching images? Several phpwcms sites are ranking very well on text results, but not a single image is listed in the image results. Why?
Thanks for help
Gerd
Re: search engines arn't finding images
Posted: Wed 21. Jul 2010, 09:13
by baklavoni
Actually I was wondering about images CP, and result in frontend.
If you add some image, for example
image.jpg in backend, and after that add it in Images CP (set WxH, check to open larger image on click), then that image in frontend will have path like this content/images/
041fe8f3f4fab2bb30581e1bdd3234fe.jpg
I think this is reason why search engines cannot find your images by tags, or names.
If you add pictures in
wysiwyg editor, then filename is preserved...
Correct me if I'm wrong...
Re: search engines arn't finding images
Posted: Wed 21. Jul 2010, 11:42
by flip-flop
First please have a look into the robots.txt
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Disallow: /content/
Disallow: /filearchive/
Knut
Re: search engines arn't finding images
Posted: Thu 29. Jul 2010, 13:21
by swisscheese
The robots.txt I changed about 4 weeks ago to following:
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User-Agent: *
Disallow: /download.php*
Disallow: /login.php
Disallow: /phpwcms.php
Disallow: /template/
Disallow: /img/
But still no images in google, bing etc. I'm hopelessly stranded with this
Any ideas
Thanx, Gerd
Re: search engines arn't finding images
Posted: Thu 29. Jul 2010, 13:36
by flip-flop
We should try to find out why this is so.
It could be the build of the HTML img- or scr lines.
Or is the reason for the cryptic filename?
You should test some placebo with different lines and/or speaking file names.
Knut