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Questions tagged [google-image-search]

Google Image Search is an image search service that allows users to search for image content and images by content.

Google's Image Search service relies on keywords derived from the images filename, anchor element text linking to the image, HTML alt attribute content, and text that is adjacent to the image in content.
Below is a list of Google Image Search Services and Tools:

Google Image Search
https://images.google.com/
https://www.google.com/imghp
Google Advanced Image Search
http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
Reverse Image Search with Google Images
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/1325808?hl=en

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Lazy loading images and effects on SEO

We are using the following technique to lazy load images in our site: For all images we put in the src attribute a url for a default img (i.e. a loader) and put the actual image url in the data-src attribute. Like so
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How do I get Images for my site to Return in Google Searches

I know when I search Google for specific things I get back images underneath some sites. How do I get that to work for my site? I have even seen some sites that will return 4 or 5 images for the the site that are all relevant to my search
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Does Google use canonical urls for images

A few years ago, MaxCDN published a post on Better Image SEO with Canonical Headers in which they suggest specifying a canonical link in the HTTP header. Google's documentation on this, however, states "Google currently supports these link header…
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Make google index the actual image not the thumbnail

In a website, we have a JavaScript that opens an image when people click on the thumbnail, it seems like Google only indexes the thumbnail not the actual image with real dimensions, I was wondering if there is a way to tell Google where the actual…
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SEO for images: can I use a different (cookieless) domain?

We want to increase the value of some of our important images by means of SEO, and we want to start serving them from a different, i.e. cookieless, domain. We want to go from www.example.com/images/1234.jpg to…
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When linking to an image as "download", get other text associated with the image for Google image search

I have an HTML code like this: Download The problem with the above code is Google search engine is crawling the image with the…
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SEO: same physical file (URL) at different webpages

Let me take an example of what I mentioned in the title, I have a image of dinning room with a nice table, good chairs, which is stored at http://example.com/static/the-dinning-room.jpg, uploaded by user A in collection "A's dinning room". Then user…
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Google Image safe search filters my images. What should I do to prevent this problem

I tried to Google-search the images on my site. Some of them appeared. But if I check the "Safe search" option there are no of them displayed. All images absolutely free of adult content or something like that. Text placed on the pages shouldn't…
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Cropping images & SEO

So I have a page with a bunch of images with largely varying sizes. Also the layout of the page is such that the images are all in the shape of square tiles, so just resizing will cause distorted images. What I've been doing previously is when users…
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How does the Google Images preview panel work, and why is it not showing my image?

In Google Images, when an image is clicked in search results, an "image preview" appears with a blurry image (basically the cached low-res version) and then an updated, clearer version is swapper in later. Does this fetch the live image? I have also…
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SEO: Using the same image on separate webpages with different 'alt' tags.

If I use same image URL on separate webpages with different alt tags for each, will it have any negative impact on SEO? What is the best practice to utilize the same image on separate webpages?
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Should I Add images Subdomain To Search Console?

My website: example.com My images subdomain: images.example.com I added images.example.com to search console a few years ago, because I had read that subdomains should be added to search console. Now When I view the performance section of this…
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Can you indicate to Google Images which image it should index from srcset?

Related Github issue: https://github.com/browniebroke/gatsby-image-gallery/issues/844 So I'm using Gatsby and an image gallery. The gallery generates two images, a thumbnail and the gallery image. The thumbnail is a low resolution file and the…
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Google image search crops my images

Google is cropping my images in the result of google image search. I do have a height defined on my images that are SVG-files. The image code looks like this: Woman standing
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Does Rails Precompiled Images Names Affect SEO?

I manage a Rails 4 app deployed to Heroku. Because of our setup, we always need to precompile our images before deploying to Heroku. The effect of this is that our images in production end up with names…
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