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Oct 02, 2006 - 11:49 AM
Hi John,
I assume that with image link you mean something like:
In principle they should be able to, since it's just like a normal link (without the text), but according to this blog entry at least Google don't do it:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/...
According to this discussion: http://www.searchguild.com/tpage27486...
they are being crawled, but if you want to help the search engine name the image with the text that you want the search engine to index it under. Like "a-great-news-site.gif" and put the ALT attribute as well on the image tag and the TITLE attribute on the anchor tag.
Hope this helps...
I assume that with image link you mean something like:
In principle they should be able to, since it's just like a normal link (without the text), but according to this blog entry at least Google don't do it:
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/...
According to this discussion: http://www.searchguild.com/tpage27486...
they are being crawled, but if you want to help the search engine name the image with the text that you want the search engine to index it under. Like "a-great-news-site.gif" and put the ALT attribute as well on the image tag and the TITLE attribute on the anchor tag.
Hope this helps...
Dec 14, 2012 - 05:15 AM
No google web engine crawlers can't crawl images..
Source: http://frompo.com/
Dec 14, 2012 - 05:46 AM
Yes search engine definately crawl image links because When a search engine's web crawler visits a web page, it "reads" the visible text, the hyperlinks(image links), and the content of the various tags used in the site, such as keyword rich meta tags. Using the information gathered from the crawler, a search engine will then determine what the site is about and index the information. The website is then included in the search engine's database and its page ranking process.
Web crawlers may operate one time only, say for a particular one-time project. If its purpose is for something long-term, as is the case with search engines, web crawlers may be programed to comb through the Internet periodically to determine whether there has been any significant changes. If a site is experiencing heavy traffic or technical difficulties, the spider may be programmed to note that and revisit the site again, hopefully after the technical issues have subsided.MORE DETAILS
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