I will test it now.
Thanks for your help. I will report.
@alex
Thanks for the code. We just want to make NextGen better :).
@steve Tille
Sorry Steve, I didn’t read your previous posts carefully enough. I’m not sure why Google wouldn’t index your site images apart from the ones in the sidebar but I’d say it’s a good idea to try to give google as much info about your images as possible and not rely on context only…
Alex,
Thanks for directing me to this post. As I mentioned I have the same issue mentioned above (only sidebar indexed). I changed the code above and will post back if I see any results.
I don’t want to hijack this thread but have a couple of questions…
1. Will this fix work retroactively – for images already posted.
2. My old method of uploading involved uploading images through the NextGen plug-in and then pasting the code into the post. A couple of upgrades ago WP included the Add Media function to the editor and now I upload the image through that. Is that also NextGen? If so, is there any code I should change for it as well as those images aren’t being indexed either.
Three of my sites are image based and are seeing very little indexing. I use Zenphoto on one as well as NextGen and the Zenphoto gallery hasn’t had a single image indexed so it entirely possible that the issue isn’t with your software!
Thanks for your help!
Phauxshow
Critteristic
Anonymous Pond
So, i think it’s enough time to see the result.
http://www.steve-tille.de/wp-content/gallery/ Fehler 4xx
http://www.steve-tille.de/wp-content/gallery/crazy Fehler 4xx
http://www.steve-tille.de/wp-content/gallery/crazy/ Fehler 4xx
And, no imgages found in google, see “site:steve-tille.de/wp-content/”
Only the pictures from my sitebar plugin.
Who said that one week is enough time ?
I enabled since two weeks my test page now for the GoogleBot, and there are still no images listed :
http://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Anextgen.boelinger.com
If you have no time for analyse the situation… switch the tools, that’s the best solution 🙂
Hey sorry…..the Tool is perfekt. So i wait how long?
I would first enable mod_rewrite and permalinks… as we all know this is more search friendly….
Hi Alex,
I still have a few questions that I mentioned above. Primarily, my situation is this…
1. Google indexes all of my sidebar images.
2. Only about 3 of the images that I used the NextGen plugin to upload were indexed after 4 or 5 months – all of which have numbers in the jpg title, for example – phot001300.jpg
3. Only 2 of the images I used the WordPress Add Media function to upload were indexed and they both included image size in the jpg name, for example – embee_op_570x600.jpg
Is it necessary to add image sixe to the jpg title?
I added the fix that you gave above. Is the the WordPress Add Media function based on the NextGen plugin? Is there any code I can change to help with it?
I’m just trying to understand the Google Image Beast and make my site better. Here is a link to my primary image site if you want to have a look…
Critteristic
@redhousepainter
The WordPress Add Media function is not part of NGG, it’s the new Core gallery system (but you can also access from there to NGG pictures)
Currently I have now idea why random images will indexed, maybe the div structure of the gallery causes such a problem, I will play with it on my test page…
Hi,
I want to share the results of an experiment I did on a site where I use the NextGEN plugin, the site for a Jamaica Plain artist.
After waiting a month without having any of her images being indexed on Google, I took the following steps:
1) I uploaded the images to my Picasa account.
2) I linked to that page from each page of her image gallery (i.e., from her 2007 gallery, I linked to the Picasa gallery for 2007).
3) I created an RSS feed for each year’s gallery.
4) I waited…
It’s taken about three months (this is not a highly visited site), but Google is now indexing 21 of her approximately 100 images.
I also asked her to add captions to images, but that is going to be a long-term proposition. 😉
In the meantime, I wrote text for each year, just to get some text on the page, even though it’s not filled with strategically important keywords.
I’m quite interested in what people think of these steps and what other steps you might recommend.
Thanks,
Josh
sorry for the double post
but looking at http://images.google.com/images?q=site%3Anextgen.boelinger.com
it appears google is indexing the gallery images
but when I look at the html of that page the image gallery is still using the style attribute and not the width, height attributes like you suggested in the fix
what is different about that blog and everyone elses?
similar to everyone else, i am running nextgen on a bunch of blogs and only when i insert individual images on pages or posts do they appear in the google image search
?
Why was my post deleted?
Was it for the links?
If so I won’t post them again
…I have the same problem in all of the FIVE sites in which I’m using wordpress with nextgen gallery.
I really need the images to be indexed by google…
help!
do you have permalinks activated ?
i didn’t on my blogs, and everyone on here so far saying google hasn’t index their images seems to be using the default wordpress url structure
I don’t know why that would make a difference, and maybe it doesn’t but it appears to be something the sites have in common
also the boelinger example could be misleading because he has the random images running on all the pages , so its not 100% certain that the image in the image search came from the gallery or the random image section
