Question about images

[rianna]

Hi, my name isn't Rianna, my roomate got me started on this whole search engine interest and signed up to this forum first, this is Nancy.

I am not sure if I am reading the image information correctly or not.

Are the link names supposed to appear next to the images in the search results, or the image extensions only, such as .gif .jpg etc? Or both?

For instance as an example for you, right now I have a test image, testimage.gif. I have the directory it is in, listed in the thumbnail configuration. I have the alt and the link name exactly the same and set up like this. <a href='http://www.google.com/' target='_blank' ><img src='/test/testimage.gif' border='0' alt='This is just a test'>This is just a test</a>

The image css class is set up properly, and the "image" option is marked in the results layout. In the indexing options "alt text," "link text,"
"title of page," and "page title," are marked.

After indexing when I do a search on "this is just a test," the image appears just fine. But this is what is listed as the image link. "testimage.gif" Not the link name------"This is just a test" between the <a></a> tags. Is this supposed to be what happens or is the link name supposed to be the link instead, next to the image? Thanks.

[Ray]

This is correct behaviour. The title for an image file will be either the meta title stored within the image file itself, or the filename.

It will not use ALT text or link text as the title of the image. Enabling these indexing options only allow them to be indexed and searched, not used as the page title.

We have had another request somewhere on the forum, for an option to use ALT text as titles for image files, and we could consider this for a future update if there is enough demand for it. However, we should point out that it might not be the best idea, since an image may appear on several pages, and they may have differing ALT text. In such a case, we could only use the first one we come across which might not be obvious from an web author point of view (ie. the order in which the spider finds one link before another during its crawling process).

[rianna]

I am pretty sure it is fine the way it is, I think the alt information or the way I linked it is showing under the image in the search results. I'll let you know if it isn't later, I only tested it a couple of times. Thank you very much!