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This is an image. You have what, maybe 1000's of images? It's unlikely Google will index your images as you might expect. Your website has a certain amount of Google "juice", and Google will priortize top level pages instead of watering out all your SEO across 1000s of elements. For starters, it's unrealistic to consider your images as SEO targets.ed_f wrote:however, although I have since a while followed advises and filled titles, still nothing is found. some examples: this portrait bears the name of the person in the filename, the title and in the description and is still not found.
This page is how new? I see it was updated only a few days ago. Also, sorry to carry this news, but it's likely your website has zero rank relative to other websites with the same topic.ed_f wrote:even worse: about this man there is a whole page with some images, all with his name in title and description, but if you search for his name you find my images an quite a few places, but not on my own site. what am I still doing wrong? thank you!
Definitely shows results from your website, with many pages competing for the same phrase:ed_f wrote:"keyword" was just a placeholder, replace it with the word in question, for example Flusser.
Nothing much. Always room for improvement, but even if you maximize SEO from the inside, your SEO will always depend on things you can't control. How new is your website? How new is your pages? How new is your domain? How extensive is the text content you wrote about the searched phrase? How many daily visitors do you have that consume the info on your pages? How much "buzz" have you created by linking to your pages from social media (Facebook, Twitter, etc)? How many high-ranking pages link to your website? These are the most important SEO factors, and unfortunately, like "most" private websites, you will rank quite low. Without including your specific website url, it's unrealistic to expect pages to show up in search, unless there are no other websites that cover the topic.ed_f wrote:what am I still doing wrong? thank you!
Then your domain will benefit, although "age" is just a small factor in SEO ranking.ed_f wrote:I use this domain since at least 2 dozen years
Google is the biggest company on earth, thanks to their search-engine, which could be the smartest AI on earth. They maintain this search engine to best suit HUMANS (else humans would not use it). So what's the best way to display the best search results for humans? That's for google to consider what humans actually see and read on the website, and how relevant it is. It's a long time ago that Google moved away from "keywords", because this is of absolutely no benefit to humans. It means a website about cars could add some keywords="ice cream, cake, candy", which is not only invisible to humans, but also totally irrelevant. Google bases it's search data on what humans actually see and read (which makes sense), and of course will quantify the quality based on incoming links from social/websites of similar topics. I'm far from a SEO expert, but I follow the basic ever-changing concepts with interest.ed_f wrote:what is really surprising news to me, is that google (still a machine, but obviously better conditioned than I thought) reacts more to phrases than to words.
I know of colleagues that have extremely successfully pushed their images for google image search. As far as I remember the key to this success was context, meaning you need a lot of interesting and engaging text (on the topic of the images) around them.mjau-mjau wrote:Finding images is unrealistic, as they won't even normally display in plain google search.
Sure! But then of course, this is specifically Google image-search (click the image tab in Google). If you are working with SEO on your website, it's important to understand the differences and set realistic targets for pages vs images.metallissimus wrote:I know of colleagues that have extremely successfully pushed their images for google image search. As far as I remember the key to this success was context, meaning you need a lot of interesting and engaging text (on the topic of the images) around them.
Indeed. The good news is that this is what Google is working towards, as it wants to rely on text/data that humans read instead of artificial SEO-text which is aimed only to seduce search engines instead of being written for humans. After all, what's the best way for Google to create the best search results for humans? It's to study what humans see, and consider useful it is for humans.metallissimus wrote:This is something I struggle a lot with and why I sometimes hate SEO – I'm a photographer and I want my images to speak for themselves and not have to write novels around them to be noticed by a stupid search engine which only knows how to deal with text. </rant>