Optimizing Images for Google Search hosted at free hosting account?

Question

Hello,

Ok, let me explain the situation in detail. I have a blog actresssnaps.com. I am using free hosting service like photobucket and shareapic.net for hosting pictures in my site and puts thumbnail linking to these in my site. How can I get these pictures indexed under my site name in Google image search? Is there any way to do this?

I do use title tag and alt tag; but then this will help in indexing the pictures at the host site only, am I right? For example let's say i have a image_1.jpg with alt tag "image 1". So when somebody searches for "image 1" in google image search, the image will come up but since it is hosted in free host, it will take the visitor to there. Is any way to get my site indexed for this image?

Hope this does not confuse you all!!!

Answer 1

You are on the right track.

Always change the .jpg name of your image to correspond with what it is.

Then use the alt tag to describe the image with the same words i.e.

joesmith.jpg alt tag: "this is an image of  joe smith".

Lastly write a description using the same keywords beside/underneath/around the image in your website/blog.

Now Google Image Search for some reason takes a lot longer to index images than Google Web Search takes to index websites/blogs.

I would say at least 3 months and sometimes longer. That's just the way it is unless you have a real high PR site.

My image gallery website took about 2 months to start indexing images after the site was indexed in web search.

Just do all of the right things and be patient.

You could also get a Google account, go into webmaster tools and add your website then opt into 'enhanced image search'.

Regards, Zyfert