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google is not indexing images on my site - can i speak to google?
Category: Computers > Programming Asked by: simsysims-ga List Price: $5.00 |
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27 Jul 2002 03:58 PDT
Expires: 26 Aug 2002 03:58 PDT Question ID: 45760 |
why doesn't google index my images? I have 22000 of them and google is only indexing one! because my site is multi frame based, i have provided a list page for crawlers to use http://www.musicpictures.com/artists_no_frames.cfm which leads to many pages with between 1 and 9 images on each page. i have also tried various other methods for about a year. But google is still not indexing the images. My question is really - is there any way to speak to someone at google about this? I've tried all the FAQ's and sites like search engine watch etc. |
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Re: google is not indexing images on my site - can i speak to google?
Answered By: missy-ga on 27 Jul 2002 15:43 PDT Rated:  |
Hi there! As Ian notes below, your page is incorrectly coded. I've rearranged your code for you (in spite of CoffeeCup Pro complaining vehemently about it), you may download the file here: http://blake.prohosting.com/~woozle/extras/musicpictures.html ...and this should solve your problem. Here's why: "How does an indexing robot decide what to index? If an indexing robot knows about a document, it may decide to parse it, and insert it into its database. How this is done depends on the robot: Some robots index the HTML Titles, or the first few paragraphs, or parse the entire HTML and index all words, with weightings depending on HTML constructs, etc. Some parse the META tag, or other special hidden tags." The Web Robots FAQ http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/faq.html#visit The Googlebot wandered to your page, tried to read the information at the top of the page (the .js links), and couldn't understand what your page said. It didn't recognize your page as a valid HTML document, so it left. By rearranging your code so the .js links are in their proper positions within the <HEAD> tags, you tell the Googlebot that it is indeed a valid HTML document, which allows it to crawl the rest of the document and do its job. It would probably help you to know that your page is too big for the Googlebot to index all of your images. The Googlebot only indexes the first 110K of a document - your crawlers page weighs in at a hefty .85MB! Break that down into several smaller, linked pages of 100K or less to ensure that all of your images are indexed. Search Engines Details - Google http://alt.venus.co.uk/weed/search/engines.htm#goo For more information about how web-bots work, and how to optimize your site for maximum crawl coverage, try these guides: Checklist for Search Robot Crawling and Indexing http://www.searchtools.com/robots/robot-checklist.html Robots & Spiders & Crawlers: How Web and intranet search engines follow links to build indexes http://support.inktomi.com/products/search/support/docs/wp-spider/default.htm Spiders and Indexing Robots http://websearch.about.com/cs/searchspiders/ Good luck! --Missy |
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Thank you very much for this answer missy - and ian too. Both excellent sources. When you're a one man band working on a site it helps big time to get an outsiders view. This lead me to start checking and fixing several aspects of my site with regard to document validity. An aspect that is not obviously important to web crawlers untill you think about it! Thankyou! Simon. |
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Re: google is not indexing images on my site - can i speak to google?
From: ian_stobie-ga on 27 Jul 2002 12:54 PDT |
This is just a guess, but the HTML of your page looks very confusing. The normal position for the <script>...</script> stuff you've got right at the beginning of http://www.musicpictures.com/artists_no_frames.cfm is after the <head> tag, not before it. So my guess is that Google's crawlers simply give up, not recognising this as a valid web page. There's definitely something wrong with your page. If you go to W3C's free HTML validation service at http://validator.w3.org and enter your URL it immediately throws up a fatal error. |
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