Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
Better Understanding Image Queries Years ago, I wouldn’t have expected a search engine to tell a searcher about objects in a photograph or video. However, search engines have been evolving and getting better at what they do. In February, Google was granted a patent, returning image results identifying objects in photographs and videos. However, a … Read more
Image Classification in the past Back in 2008, I was writing about how a search engine might learn from photo databases like Flickr, and how people label images in a post I wrote called, Community Tagging and Ranking in Images of Landmarks In another post that covers the Flickr image classification Landmark work, Faces and … Read more
Googlebot Doesn’t Read Text in Images During Web Crawls Or Does it? When I was an Administrator at Cre8asiteforums (2002-2007), one of my favorite forums on the site was one called the Website Hospital. People would come with their sites and questions about how they could improve them. One problem that often appeared was people … Read more
Recently, many are pointing to Google’s Panda update as one that considers things like how much advertising and where advertisements are located on a web page as indications of the quality of a Web site. Of course, there are likely other factors that the search engine would consider when scoring a site based upon quality … Read more
Search for [ships] in Yahoo Image Search, and you’ll see a good number of images of ships. How do they get placed in the order that they appear within? A search engine tends to rely upon text associated with those images to rank them in image search. That could be alt text associated with the … Read more