Google Image Search Observation
- Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Recently I have observed that in Google Image search for my website page “My Projects” (https://www.joydeepdeb.com/misc/projects.html) Google have indexed all the images from my website except 2 images.
I have coded same way for all images with their description and website links.
<p><a href="[LINK TO SITE]" target="_blank"><img src="[ABSOLUTE IMAGE PATH]"
alt="COMPANY NAME" width="xxx" height="xx" /></a></p>
<p>Description Description Description Description Description Description
Description Description Description Description Description Description
Description Description Description Description</p>
<p>Website: <a href="[LINK TO SITE]" target="_blank">[LINK TO SITE]</a></p>
Soon I realized that the two images which didn’t get indexed are having height less than 30px and rest of the images are having height more than 30px. Although I have seen Google have indexed images which are less than 30px.
May be when Google see’s multiple images on a page, it decides not to index images with small resolutions.
The list of images on my page except logo image:
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-archersindia.jpg (250x81) Indexed
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-compliance-online.gif (223x29) Not indexed
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-ivf.jpg (233x44) Indexed
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-metricstream.jpg (375x48) Indexed
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-oracle.gif (133x18) Not indexed
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-tsa.jpg (179x33) Indexed
- https://www.joydeepdeb.com/images/logo-visit-india-360.jpg (238x63) Indexed
It is like, if a page has multiple images and Google have crawl budget for that site/page – Google is more likely to index bigger images compared with smaller once.
Let’s say a product page, which has 3 images:
- Image 1 – 500x400
- Image 2 – 300x250
- Image 3 – 100x50
Google is more likely to index Image 1 then Image 2 and then Image 3 - Bigger image get more priority compared with smaller once.
Joydeep Deb is a Senior Digital Marketer and Project Manager with 15+ years of experience in Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, Online Brand Management, Marketing Campaigns, Project Management, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Marketing (SEM), PPC, eMail Marketing, Web Analytics, Web Technologies, Web Design and Development.
With an MBA in Marketing. IIM Calcutta Alumini. Lives in Bangalore, Karnataka - India.