linder60 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I hope this is the correct forum to ask this question. When I go to google or yahoo and do a search on an item in my site say for example a certain sports book, then I click on images in the search, there are alot of images of peoples items on their sites. Mine dont show up, I tried one that only had apprx 100 items and nothing. Is there a trick for the file name of the pictures ?? I'm so confused, or does it just take awhile for the file name EXAMPLE: 1960_worldseries_program.jpg to circulate the web to get found on the search engines. I have my files currently generic wb1.jpg etc, I changed one to the actual item name, like the world series program example file name for the pic, but its not showing up in a search, am I doing something wrong, or is it because I just changed the file name the other day. Another question which I'm sure is a dumb question, when I change the picture file names do I have to resubmit to search engines again ?? Sorry if these are dumb questions or in the wrong forum. Thanks in advance for any input. Linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisW123 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hi Linda, I don't think the filename of your images really matters. More the text you have on the page which is displaying the image because that is what the search engines are looking at and indexing. What you should do is post your website URL in the "My Store" forum. That way people can go there and give a critique of your site and suggest ways to improve it. Post that you are concerned about SEO optimization, etc., and you'll get tips on how to improve that. If you use contributions such as Header Tags or Meta Tags Controller, those contribs generate keywords for your pages automatically which the search engines like. And then take a look at "Ultimate SEO URLs" to make your webpage names more SE friendly. Good luck! -Chris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linder60 Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hi Linda, I don't think the filename of your images really matters.? More the text you have on the page which is displaying the image because that is what the search engines are looking at and indexing. What you should do is post your website URL in the "My Store" forum.? That way people can go there and give a critique of your site and suggest ways to improve it.? Post that you are concerned about SEO optimization, etc., and you'll get tips on how to improve that. If you use contributions such as Header Tags or Meta Tags Controller, those contribs generate keywords for your pages automatically which the search engines like.? And then take a look at "Ultimate SEO URLs" to make your webpage names more SE friendly. Good luck! -Chris. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi Chris, Thanks for the feedback. I'm afraid to let people check out the store, I'm such a novice, its kinda plain jane so to speak. I've read for days on end on the forums and contributions pages. I see the trouble people are having when they do the contributions, and being such a newbie I'm afraid to try because I'm afraid the store will blow up on me, I'm very new to websites, php, and creating files to upload etc. I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible so I dont screw it up too much. Can I email you the link to the store and you can take a peek. Actually I have a website and the osCommerce is linked to the items in the website. Probably not a great idea, but I'm doing it the way the hubby wanted it done, struggling with it but SURVIVING, I THINK. LOL I have the meta tags etc on the website itself with the keywords also and I added those to the search engine submission deal too, when I submitted the site. Thanks Again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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