iWeb immages on Google immages

Google needs to know that your website exists first - so let them know you are there and it is then a matter of the spiders crawling your site from then on.

To get your website found and indexed by the search engines you need to go through all the steps...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/SEO.html

For them to effectively index and and crawl each page you must upload and enter a sitemap.xml and update this every time you publish changes to your site...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Sitemap.html

After your site has been indexed and Google has cached images of the pages they will be viewable in the sidebar...

If you want your actual images to become indexed you need to do a lot more!

Images appear in a web page using this HTML...

<img src="Url to the file" alt="alt text" width'"xxx" height="yyy" />

From this you can see that there are two places here where keywords can included - in the file name and the alt attribute.

Before adding images to a web page, create a descriptive file name and separate the words with hyphens. This is essential when using iWeb since the application provides no way to add alt . Its there in the code but its empty.

The easiest way to add alt info is to use an app like iWeb SEO Tool post publishiing...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.html

The other attribute that can be added to the img tag is title="title text". This info appears in the tooltip when the visitor hovers the cursor over the image.

As far as I know the only way you can add title info when using iWeb is to post edit the page HTML. The general opinion is that search engines give more relevence to the alt rather than the title anyway.

Remember that the file name, alt and title should NOT contain the same keywords as this is regarded as keyword stuffing.

Don't forget the humans. Add a text caption as well.

If you want your images indexed do NOT use the iWeb Photos or Albums template.

If you are going to use a slideshow, choose one that uses an unordered list in the HTML and then you can add your own alt and title info in the code.

iWeb doesn't use javascript for images you drag onto the page - just to create the Albums and Photos pages.

The html for an image that is dragged onto an iWeb page is like this...

<img src="URL to the image file" alt="" style="border: none;width:xxx;height:yyy" />

Note how the alt="" is empty. This is where the alt text is inserted by iWeb SEO Tool or where you would put it when post editing the HTML file. Example...

<img src="beach-at-midnight.jpg" alt="Moonrise on Pismo Beach" style="border: none;width:480px;height:360px" />

Adding alt tags with iWeb SEO Tool is not technical at all...

http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.html