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• Rhys B’s answer to: “How Do I put My Picture on the Internet”

• Rhys B This is an experiment (See Update 6 below) to see if I can resolve the question: “How Do I put My Picture on the Internet?”, so that it shows up with my name for a Google Search?????

• See it Here. So what I have done is displayed it here and

Photo of Rhys B

• Used Keyword Coherence and Site Synergy“: to be sure that my name shows up as the first keyword in the Google SERPs, and now you just might discover exactly, “How Do I put My Picture on the Internet?”

• UPDATE : OK, so Mr Google spotted this post 43 minutes after I posted it, and it showed No 1 in the SERP’s in a search for the keyphrase, “How Do I put My Picture on the Internet”, but so far the picture hasn’t come up on an image search for Rhys B.

• UPDATE 2: 14 days later and still the picture hasn’t come up on an image search for Rhys B. Seems Google images results lag way behind the data searches!

• UPDATE 3: 6 Weeks on and still no sign of the Google image crawler. Oh, well; This very informative post from Xarj Blog and Podcast suggests that G is very slow indeed to index images,  like it can take up to a year[See update 6 below].

• UPDATE 4: Very discouraging – nearly 6 months on and still no sign of the pic in Google Images. Have added a DIV frame around it with a Title in Bold, to see if that helps!

• UPDATE 5: Success!!!! Finally [10 months later] Google has decided to list this pic [Rhys B] in the Image Search. I rate this as a NOT VERY successful experiment!

• IMAGE SEO: If you want to do any SEO on your images, then this article is was was the tops. The most important tip for me was that when G uses random text to label an image, it takes it from ABOVE the image. Therefore, be sure to have descriptive text above the image as well as below it.

• UPDATE 6: Yeeeeee-haaaaaa! I believe I’ve finally got it sorted.  The trick is this – set the title of the pic, the post title,  the opening BOLD bullet header, and the img title ALL to THE SAME KEYWORD/PHRASE. E.G., “put-my-picture-on-the-internet[.jpg]” Also put the image IMMEDIATELY after the Bullet Header.  The Big G will then  index your picture within 6 weeks.  (This assumes that G is spidering your site regularly). This has been true for the last dozen or so posts I have applied this formula to.

This method assumes that you are able to make a post titled the same as the title you want Google to index the picture under – so the Post might be titled Photo of John/Jane Doe; the bullet head read John/Jane Doe Online; the img title read John/Jane Doe and the pic name be john/jane-doe.jpg

Tags: Bullet Header, Google SERPs, Image SEO, Keyword Coherence, picture on the internet, Site synergy

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