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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: alexramsay on February 02, 2007, 10:15:34 am

Title: tagging / IPTC
Post by: alexramsay on February 02, 2007, 10:15:34 am

New to website design - can anyone tell me how to ensure the images on my site are available to a search in Google (Images)? If a file is called, say, 12345.jpg only, but has keywords and caption info in its IPTC data, will a Google search on those keywords locate the image? Or should the filename be changed to a short descriptive caption instead?

Thanks

Title: tagging / IPTC
Post by: jani on February 04, 2007, 07:44:56 am

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New to website design - can anyone tell me how to ensure the images on my site are available to a search in Google (Images)? If a file is called, say, 12345.jpg only, but has keywords and caption info in its IPTC data, will a Google search on those keywords locate the image? Or should the filename be changed to a short descriptive caption instead?

It's fascinating that you don't seem to use Google to search for the answer to your question.  

Here's a relevant article (http://www.pearsonified.com/2007/01/get_53_percent_more_searches_with_one_tweak.php) I found with less than 30 seconds worth of searching.

Basically, use the file name, ALT and TITLE attributes for best effect.