We all know the importance of all this stuff to get placement & good rankings from the almighty search engines. I have to say it is driving me crazy. I have known something for a while but have never felt the need to change it until now.
IMAGES ON MOST HOSTING SITES GET RENAMED.
Yes, my image titled davini-art-original-abstract-gem-0955 for example is named farm4.static.flickr.com/3560/3383931182_eb15 on flickr.
or it is named...
img.auctiva.com/imgdata/3/4/3/5/8/0/webimg/245527683_o.jpg on Auctiva
gone is the davini, art, original, abstract from the title of my image. Sure, the tags & titles & descriptions you give your images helps search engines to find them, but the image title itself is pretty important.
Why do you think Flickr, Auctiva & other hosting sites change them? BECAUSE IT DRAWS PEOPLE TO THEIR SITE!!!
Enough I say!!!
It's going to take hours and hours of tedious work, but I'm going to host everything on my website. It's not the easiest way & the image uploader stinks, but at least my images will have the info that will hopefully draw people to my auctions, website, and various other places.
To me, the fastest way to search for art on the major search engines is to search "images". But I have never had an image in an auction show up.
I am not very educated on all this stuff, so I'm not sure how much this will help. I'll post the results when I start to link the images from my site. If I am thinking correctly, a search of images should pick up those in my auctions, therefore increasing hits.
Now all I need is for people to actually search for "original abstract art". Maybe after the spiders gobble up my new image info things will pick up...(but who knows when I will even have time to start this task?)
Great, something else to obsess over.
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I half understand what you mean.
ReplyDeleteThat's because I'm lost in the same maze, but on the other side of the field. I can hear you but I can't see you.
But I do understand exactly the frustration.
Will all this NET stuff really work in the end?
I'm trying.
"Will all this NET stuff really work in the end?"
ReplyDeleteThat IS the big question. I could be ranked number one on every engine but would that mean my art would sell?
I knew I should have gone to med school.:>