Website design question

[Thailandnotes]

There must be some professional web designers in the itulip crowd. Any good reading on the topic below would be appreciated.

I’m redesigning my wife’s website. She makes art quilts. For the past few days I’ve been reading about associating text with images. My hope was to get a sense of how google images and similar search engines filter what they display. I’ve read about how pictures are ranked, but none of the articles describing the algorithms match up with the actual search results.

If I search google images with “fish quilt blue and white sengel” why do I get a picture of a Detroit Pistons basketball cake?

[jpatter666]

Re: Website design question

I get lots of quilts with fish pictures. Not sure why you are seeing what you are.

[Thailandnotes]

Re: Website design question

I get plenty of fish quilts also, but there must be ten thousand fish quilts out there, and instead of sticking strictly to those, interspersed is a sign pointing north, a guy riding a bike, a grow light & terrarium.

I'm just trying to understand how it works.

[lektrode]

Re: Website design question

try this one:
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=...iw=997&bih=659

"blue quilts with fish"

best to keep search terms simple like the way they pop into the mind

and - tho i certainly dont make the big bux in this dept, i do know a few tricks.

first thing ya do is have a 'alt' description of the image - the source code would look something like this:

IMG align=left vspace=5 hspace=5 width= height= border=1 alt="*" SRC=".jpg

in brackets, of course
where the * inside the "*" is replaced with a simple but unique to your stuff 'label' for the image - this isnt shown by the browser, but IS 'seen' by googles search monsters

the other thing, and i can NOT overstress this point: you want to have TEXT ON THE PAGES that describe what you are both showing to the viewer and selling to the customer - you also want META tags within the source code that have the key search terms that you have determined are the best 'hooks' for your intended audience.

the other aspect of this is THE MORE UNIQUELY DESCRIPTIVE that you are with the wording of this text
and THE MORE OF IT, the better - since the seach engines look for TEXT and the images that have an 'alt' descriptive label are what gets indexed first

hope this helps, but i'm sure that others can help better than i can (that and this aint the right forum for this kine stuffs ;)

[Thailandnotes]

Re: Website design question

Thanks, I'm up on tags and alt text.

I'm looking for an article on those "search monsters" that switches on the light.

[lektrode]

Re: Website design question

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient...iw=997&bih=659