All images are noindex will opening this at once be an issue?
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Hi,
All images are noindex will opening this at once be an issue?
Not sure how a few months ago all my images were set as noindex which i realized last week. We have 20K images which were indexed fine but now when i check
Site:sitename it shows 10 or 12 and the inspect element via Chrome i see the noindex is set for all images. We have been renaming the images and adding ALT tags for most of them and would it be an issue if we change the noindex in one shot or should we do them few at a time?
Thanks
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Hi,
I can share from my personal experience, we had noindex to images earlier - though it was much lower as against yours as just 1500 images. after removing noindex from it - there was no issue at all
The images started showing in google images after 2 weeks and almost after 6 weeks - we could start seeing most of them. You are doing correct by using Alt attribute, only thing is naming the image correctly (for ex, if someone searches for honda city then image should contain name as honda-city.jpg or like this along with Alt text)
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Thanks
label images is being done as image-name-that-it-represents.jpg
5+ words of file name and 5+ words of ALT keys would that be fine?
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I don't think anything will happen. You're conversion rate may drop because 20K images will now be available in image search. I remember once I started ranking for the keyword: car. I saw a big increase in organic, but a drop in conversions. Try to be careful how you label your images. Also, make annotation in GA so you can compare before and after.
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