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ut-oh… busted.

yay for wordpress rebranding? http://www.equaldesign.co.uk/equal-design-launch/#more-17

again, that stuff helps but it’s not enough to make your results better than anyone else’s for those 6 words, only 3 of which actually mean anything.

well, the title is helpful, but really you need to think about how YOU want a search engine to work for you as a searcher, and you can bet that’s how the folks at google address the issue.

when you search for “elephants” are you more likely to be interested in 10,000 pages saying stuff like:

– elephants are great
– wow, that looks like elephants
– elephants have wrinkles
– these are my elephants

etc…

or are you more likely to be interested in pages with lots of interesting content about elephants?

given that the google software can’t actually “look” at the image (yet) the priority for images is very similar to that of text pages. The more relevant content there is, the more likely that pictures on that page are targeted to the search terms.

After all, you want pictures of elephants right? – you don’t really want throwaway lines like “my ex girlfriend is an elephant” to rank particularly highly.

The people who make search engines have to struggle against webmasters who would force their way into the top results – really, we all want to be there, but the only reliable way of making it happen is to have *lots* of *quality* content about a focused subject.

You have a thousand images with barely any information attached to them, and the vast majority of which have no relationship to each other.

Only the artist and existing fans of the artist are likely to consider that a worthwhile hit in an image search.

As for your title tags… this image here is called ‘5’ – seriously, are you pulling my leg? This is you trying to get indexed?
http://phauxshow.com/gallery/eric-ginsburg/5.JPG.php

“human series 2”
http://phauxshow.com/gallery/valentina-vasi/human+series_2.jpg.php
you’ve got to be freaking kidding. What exactly should I be searching for to find these things?

“teardrop”
http://phauxshow.com/gallery/mujahid-rieger/TearDrop.JPG.php

If I searched for teardrop, I’d honestly be quite disappointed if I found that. Not because it sucks, but because it’s general usefulness as an image is extremely low. It’s nice to look at, but what can I do with it?

Making your site work with search engines isn’t very complex. You just have to put yourself in the shoes of the average consumer of search results, and ask yourself “if I wanted to find this, how would I look for it?”

For you, the answer is to include the words art, artistic, painting, etc on literally every page. Perhaps if I searched for “artistic representation of a teardrop” I might be more interested in that result — particularly if it came with a description of the artist’s vision when creating it.

lol, cheers mate 😉

That’s absolutely outstanding.

My concern is that it’s a little processor intensive – and really absolutely useless for the web without browser support (wrapping it in flash sucks), which means that it won’t make it to the web for at least 5 years after its already in wide use elsewhere. That’s disappointing. Uptake of this sort of thing in browsers seems to take longer than getting FDA approval.

I’m really glad you linked that. It’s the most revolutionary thing to happen to image manipulation since lossy compression.

this is not normal behaviour. What spam plugins in addition to (or in lieu of) akismet do you have installed?

it could be a case of nested ULs…

try #nav ul li ul li a:hover

I find that once you get specific, you have to be really specific.

you could also try .page_item a:hover (which is why the page_item is there).

sure, that should be fairly easy.

if there isn’t one already add this to your styles.css file:

.widget_style ul,
.widget_style ul li {
    margin-left: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
}

adjust to suit your taste.