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  • BritneyMuller
    BritneyMuller last edited by Nov 18, 2014, 11:20 PM

    One of our clients is in the Cosmetic Surgery business (bodevolve.com) and individuals most likely to purchase a cosmetic procedure only search for 2 things....'**before & after photos' and 'cost'. **

    That being said we've worked extremely hard to optimize all 500+ before and after photos. And to our great disappointment, they still aren't being indexed...we are testing a few things but any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

    All photos are in the 'attachment' sitemap: http://bodevolve.com/sitemap_index.xml

    I'm also testing a few squeeze pages like this one: http://bodevolve.com/tummy-tuck-before-and-after-photos/

    Thanks so much,

    Brit

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    • juliodaraujo
      juliodaraujo last edited by Jan 23, 2015, 12:02 AM Jan 23, 2015, 12:02 AM

      hi Britney Muller

      What are you doing so your images indexed well, i have the same problem... thanks

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      • BritneyMuller
        BritneyMuller last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 2:00 PM Nov 19, 2014, 2:00 PM

        It's also worth mentioning that Google gets SO MANY of these before and after requests they have created a segmented carousel (Dr. Pete would prob punch me for using that name haha!) -Nudity is not an issue for these indexed / segmented photos and greatly improves UX.

        THANKS PEOPLE!! 🙂

        Peace, Love & Grandma Hugs

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        • BritneyMuller
          BritneyMuller @sureshchowdary last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 1:50 PM Nov 19, 2014, 1:50 PM

          Great example! We haven't been flagged for any nudity but it's great to be aware of situations like that. Thanks so much

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          • BritneyMuller
            BritneyMuller @max.favilli last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 1:48 PM Nov 19, 2014, 1:48 PM

            Image names have been optimized, are you referring to the "?attachment_id=117" that WP auto assigns uploads?

            Are you familiar with a custom code we could use to alter that auto attachment name?

            Thanks so much

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            • BritneyMuller
              BritneyMuller @MoosaHemani last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 1:46 PM Nov 19, 2014, 1:46 PM

              Hi MoosaHemani,

              Thanks so much for your response! -Only a small % of the images (ones that have been embedded on pages are indexed), while we are trying to make sure the before and after photos are being properly indexed. -All names of photos have been optimized aside from WP's auto ?=attachment_blahblah thing.

              Also, how would we "use natural anchor text instead of targeting keywords all the time" for photos...the primary website is naturally linked to things however not sure what you mean for the photos?

              Thanks,

              B

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              • max.favilli
                max.favilli @MoosaHemani last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 7:14 AM Nov 19, 2014, 7:14 AM

                Also my direct experience tell changing the image name greatly improve image ranking in serp.

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                • sureshchowdary
                  sureshchowdary last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 3:14 AM Nov 19, 2014, 3:14 AM

                  When there is a nudity warning it will not be under our control to index the images. Here is an example for similar query

                  http://www.webmasterworld.com/google_adsense/3893437.htm

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                  • MoosaHemani
                    MoosaHemani Banned last edited by Nov 19, 2014, 2:32 AM Nov 19, 2014, 2:32 AM

                    As far as I see your website I see images are getting indexed (not all of them but they are in the Google search index). Why are they not appearing in the search results when someone type in related keyword is a different question. If you are looking for that my advice would be to use proper, optimized and natural anchor text instead of targeting keywords all the time.

                    Also try to change the name of the images to something more relevant. “liposuction.jpg is much better than big-imagejpg”

                    Hope this helps!

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