We've just posted a new video (http://
googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
discoverability of your images on the web.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
The link seems to be working now. BTW, happened to see one of your
old posts about your Google alter ego, Roisin. As a piece of
relatively useless information, this is Gaelic, essentially translates
as Rosie, as in the christian name.
> Can't see it. Are you shure it's psted correctly?
> Roysnj
> On Dec 6, 2:11 pm, Riona MacNamara wrote:
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
> > Thoughts? Ideas? We love feedback!- Hide quoted text -
Thanks, Riona and Matt. I'm in a fairly visual medium (dogs and cats)
so we get a lot of image searches and they serve us well. I've
concentrated on descriptive file names and very short, to-the-point
alt text - as in "Ragdoll kitten" - but it seems that a more specific
alt is welcome. So now "Seal Point Ragdoll kitten with mittens" would
work better.
That's good for me and very useful for searchers. But interesting to
see that file names are pretty well discounted in favour of alt text?
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
> Thoughts? Ideas? We love feedback!
I'm on Dial up and videos are worthless to me. It would be very
helpful when some one from Google did a video to post a text only
version.
> Thanks, Riona and Matt. I'm in a fairly visual medium (dogs and cats)
> so we get a lot of image searches and they serve us well. I've
> concentrated on descriptive file names and very short, to-the-point
> alt text - as in "Ragdoll kitten" - but it seems that a more specific
> alt is welcome. So now "Seal Point Ragdoll kitten with mittens" would
> work better.
> That's good for me and very useful for searchers. But interesting to
> see that file names are pretty well discounted in favour of alt text?
> Becky
> On Dec 6, 7:11 pm, Riona MacNamara wrote:
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
1. Our IT department has locked them out. Can you provide a
transcription or a short summary of the video?
2. Even when I could see Youtube videos, I rarely clicked on them as
it's impossible to devote 10 or 30 minutes to watching something while
at work, no matter how relevent to the job at hand. I'm a quick reader
and skimming a written post is much easier to grasp essential bits.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
I agree that videos aren't very useful; it takes much longer to obtain
information from them than from text, and the content of the videos
isn't searchable, even using Google...
> 1. Our IT department has locked them out. Can you provide a
> transcription or a short summary of the video?
> 2. Even when I could see Youtube videos, I rarely clicked on them as
> it's impossible to devote 10 or 30 minutes to watching something while
> at work, no matter how relevent to the job at hand. I'm a quick reader
> and skimming a written post is much easier to grasp essential bits.
> Thank you
> Lee
> On Dec 6, 11:11 am, Riona MacNamara wrote:
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
I think Matt Cutts always explains things clearly and interestingly in
a disarmingly laid back sort of way.
It would be good though if he could learn to write more clearly on the
board so that the writing is legible even to people unfamiliar with
the terms being used.
And could Google Resources Department provide him with some fresh
boardmarkers!
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
Well Mat didn't say that more descriptive file names aren't also
important, only that providing alt text for the images you are
currently using is a very good first step towards optimization, which
doesn't a big effort.
> Thanks, Riona and Matt. I'm in a fairly visual medium (dogs and cats)
> so we get a lot of image searches and they serve us well. I've
> concentrated on descriptive file names and very short, to-the-point
> alt text - as in "Ragdoll kitten" - but it seems that a more specific
> alt is welcome. So now "Seal Point Ragdoll kitten with mittens" would
> work better.
> That's good for me and very useful for searchers. But interesting to
> see that file names are pretty well discounted in favour of alt text?
> Becky
> On Dec 6, 7:11 pm, Riona MacNamara wrote:
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
> > Thoughts? Ideas? We love feedback!- Hide quoted text -
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
3 minutes of video-based information that could have been more
effectively covered with an image and 3 sentences of text. Helpful
information...but a huge waste of time and bandwidth.
> Like videos? Hate them? Have a great idea we should cover? Let us know what you think in our Webmaster Help Group.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
Well there are people who need to see and hear somebody say something
for credibility.
For me I prefer reading something, I concentrate better and retain
better written stuff than any other form. Of course, this particular
video is small and entertaining, but something longer and more
intricate would need a written transcript IMO.
> 3 minutes of video-based information that could have been more
> effectively covered with an image and 3 sentences of text. Helpful
> information...but a huge waste of time and bandwidth.
> On Dec 6, 2:11 pm, Riona MacNamara wrote:
> > Like videos? Hate them? Have a great idea we should cover? Let us know what you think in our Webmaster Help Group.
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
> > Thoughts? Ideas? We love feedback!- Hide quoted text -
True, but just look at the group. People come that I think do not know
what others are talking to them about. You can repeat three times, and
they come back again asking about the same thing.
Also, some expect direct answers from google staff and do not believe
things that non-googles write.
So maybe a video with will help them.
> 3 minutes of video-based information that could have been more
> effectively covered with an image and 3 sentences of text. Helpful
> information...but a huge waste of time and bandwidth.
> On Dec 6, 2:11 pm, Riona MacNamara wrote:
> > Like videos? Hate them? Have a great idea we should cover? Let us know what you think in our Webmaster Help Group.
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
> Thoughts? Ideas? We love feedback!
I have here a special approach on my sites.
I have all the pictures on my sites in 3 formats
picture-name.jpg like used on the web site
picture-name_dir.jpg thumbnail like used on index pages
picture-name_print.jpg original picture
The original picture is always linke from the page with a small icon
and a text like
> > We've just posted a new video (http://
> > googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> > great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> > discoverability of your images on the web.
> > Thoughts? Ideas? We love feedback!
> I have here a special approach on my sites.
> I have all the pictures on my sites in 3 formats
> picture-name.jpg like used on the web site
> picture-name_dir.jpg thumbnail like used on index pages
> picture-name_print.jpg original picture
> The original picture is always linke from the page with a small icon
> and a text like
> high res picture
> How to make this pictures good indexed?
I just checked the problem:
When I asked
[url=http://images.google.com/images? q=site:pege.org&svnum=100&hl=de&rls=GGLG,GGLG:
2006-04,GGLG:en&imgsz=xxlarge]Google for large images on my site[/url]
Only 84 indexed but when I ask
[url=http://images.google.com/images? q=site:pege.org&svnum=100&hl=de&rls=GGLG,GGLG:
2006-04,GGLG:en&imgsz=small|medium|large|xlarge]Google for medium
sized images on my site[/url] 3500 search results
At [url=http://images.google.com/images? q=site:pege.org&svnum=100&hl=de&rls=GGLG,GGLG:
2006-04,GGLG:en&imgsz=huge]Huge Pictures 837 indexed[/url]
But the huge picture count indexed should be equal to the medium sized
picture count.
This is important for me, since besides AdSense, selling licenses for
my pictures develops to a second line of income for my sites.
> We've just posted a new video (http://
> googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com), where Matt Cutts gives some
> great advice on how to use ALT attributes to increase the
> discoverability of your images on the web.
