image indexing and results

[dps1]

I have been struggling with the image plugin & I now finally clued into how this works. For none of the images I host do I have something like "<a href='....jpg'>". Rather, I have "<a href='#' onclick='...;'><img src='...jpg'></a>". I'd rather not have the former because the kinds of images I host need to be assosciated with an onclick for a pop-up window, which containts relevant, server-side markup. Your spider doesn't index "<img src='...jpg'>", correct? If it did, I'd actually have some results when one of my file extension categories is Image (jpg). Ideally, what I'd like is a thumbnail result page generated from indexed "<img src='...jpg'>" and a means to associate an image with the page from which it was indexed. Is there currently any way to do this?

[David]

You are using Javascript to display the images. The use of Javascript effectively blocks most search spiders.

In laymans terms, the spider doesn't know where on the page to click in order to make the additional content appear. The spider isn't smart enough to act like a human and figure out what might be clickable, unless there is HTML link.

[dps1]

Indeed, I am aware of the limitations, but how is that the big guys like Google are able to index these same images? As a recap, unless I make "<a href='URL to image.jpg'><img src='URL to image.jpg'></a>", none of my images are indexed. Is this the way the image plug-in is supposed to work? In other words, a hyperlinked image is a requirement for the plug-in/spider?

In my case, something like:

<a href=image.jpg>My image</a> OR <a href=image.jpg><img src=image.jpg></a> result in an indexed image BUT <a href="#" onclick='whatever()'><img src=image.jpg></a> or simply <img src=image.jpg> do not result in an indexed image.