Images being ranked
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I have a client who is concerned about the performance of his images ranking on Google Images. I have taken a look at the obvious things like - alt tags, title tags , file names.
I am not sure why he is struggling quite so much to get his images ranked well as the sites he is competing against and who are already ranking are a very poor quality.
This is his site - http://www.ukweddingfavours.co.uk
Would really appreciate your feedback and I can dish out some good answers.
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Okay will do, thanks for your help!
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They support them all as all major search engines have agreed on http://schema.org/
They may not display them all at this moment, but i would mark up the best fit using http://schema.org/ for the future.
Remeber Bing and Yahoo also use them.
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The required properties to be listed are found here:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=21997My website has many profiles of aged care facilities with photos and so I'm looking for a way to display these photos on Google.
Trouble is I can't seem to find the right rich snippet type that Google supports.
The organizations snippet looks fitting however it doesn't include an image within it's property types.
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146861Any suggestions?
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They don’t always display them, I think that some industries have more of a chance of getting displayed then others, but as time goes on I believe more and more will be used. But it is not just being displayed that is the advantage. Imagine someone searching for a phone, you may have a page with the word phone on it, you may have a image of the phone, a description of the phone and its features. The search engine does not understand what all these things are, it does not understand that altogether they are a product. But if you mark them up using rich snippets it can see them as a product with a image, description and the rest. When some one searches for a phone what would the search engine rather display to them.
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Interesting stuff. Just a few questions:
How many itemprops are needed in order to be listed by Google? I counted 10 one one of the pages.
In your experience how long would it take before Google picks up on the changes and displays them?
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If you want to see an example on how to mark it up, see bottom of page http://schema.org/ImageObject
if you want to see it in action, see results with images and ratings
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Ok great do you know of any examples sites using this method already ?
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i must say they are nice images.
I would mark them up as rich snippits.
eaither as a image object
or a image belonging to a product object
Its a fair bit of work, but worth it, you can test them with google rich snippits tool
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