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Questions tagged [image-search]

Image Search is a service for browsing, search, and retrieving digital images from a database of images, by the context of the image.

Image search keyword context is typically utilized via metadata, exif data, captions, keywords, alt attributes, and the context of the content around the image and in any anchor elements pointing to the image.
Optimizing images for search is often time-consuming (especially if the optimization plan isn't coordinated with best practices, like naming conventions, etc.), is more often than not omitted or simply an after thought in the web development process.
Image Searches have been proven to drive traffic, and not just for image URLs; engaged users can/will deveate from the image URL and browse the domain that caught their attention/resonated with their search.
Google Image Search is by far the most popular image search service, however there are a few more:
Picsearch
http://www.picsearch.com/ Yahoo Image Search
https://images.search.yahoo.com/ Bing Images
http://www.bing.com/images/
flickr Creative Commons Licensed Images Search
https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/
Creative Commons Search Tool (Not 100% Images)
http://search.creativecommons.org/

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How can we remove an unflattering image that appears when searching for our company name in Google image search?

Can I issue a request to Google to remove an image search hit that affects our company in a bad way when Googling my company name? The image in question is not on our website. It's on other website which we do not control.
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What should filenames and URLs of images contain for SEO benefit?

We know that good site architecture usually looks like…
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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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How to name image files in multi language site?

I have one site with two languages: English and Spanish for example. What would be the proper convention to name image files? From my point of view it would be stupid to duplicate image and then name it according to on which site it will be…
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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 and external sites that serve responsive images (like Re-SRC)

Re-SRC is a tool that allows you to automatically serve responsive images for your website from their cloud servers. It delivers a new image file each time the browser window (viewport) is resized. To use it in your HTML when linking to an image,…
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Index "Lazy Loading" images in Bing and Baidu

I read this questions: Lazy loading images and effects on SEO Is this a good approach to image Lazy Loading for SEO? The responses make it clear that there LazyLoad works well in google, but I wonder if this is valid for Bing bot (Yahoo bot) and…
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SEO for websites with very less content and a lot of images

Let's say we have an image exhibition website that has got a lot of images but next to nothing content. The focus keyword for this website is "Artistic wallpapers". What would be the best approach w.r.t SEO for such a website. Here are a few things…
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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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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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How to inform a search engine about the text in an image?

I have an image file that contains several sentences of text and an illustration. How can I inform a search engine about the contents of the text in my image? I can't use the alt attribute as the text in the image is longer that the maximum words…
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Image Search Ranking

What are image-specific factors that contribute to ranking in Google Image Search? Looking for what contributes to ranking and relevancy of images above and beyond the SEO of the hosting site itself. My online gallery for example ranks well for…
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How do I have Google image search link the image to a different page?

I want some images be indexed with specific page URLs. When users click them from image search I would like it to take them to my chosen URL instead of place where Google found that image. For example, I have the image: img1.png and pages: /page1…
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Website porting. Traffic fall in SEO due to image search

I ported a website on wordpress.com to my own server. The site had pretty good traffic and we had done a fair amount of work to ensure proper transitioning but we missed one aspect in redirecting traffic that came via image search. The original…
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Tackling thin content on an images gallery

We run an images gallery as part of our site, however we have over 8,000 images and every image has a separate HTML page of its own to display the image caption, related image and comments from users of the site. This seems to be a problem…
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