Indexed images to point to html page

[greendavies]

Hi,

What would like to do is to have my images indexed, but to have the link on the results page point to the html page that contains the images so that more than one image may point to the same page, like this page.
http://www.vintagevogue.com/searches/search.php?zoom_query=300

I notice that the above link is a php page and mine is asp.

What do I need to do to get this result?

Thanks,

Philip

[David]

From memory I think this is the way it is working.
If, in your HTML code, you link directly to an image, using the <a href> tag then the URLs in the search results will be direct links to the images.

If, in your HTML code, you include an image on the page, using the <img> tag then the URLs in the search results will be direct links to page containing the image.

[greendavies]

Thanks for the response, it turned out that I needed to index using spider mode, not offline mode.

My only problem now, is that now that I'm indexing using spider mode I realize how much I need to tidy up my website, especially regarding the images

Thanks,

Philip.

[Ray]

Taking a look at your site, I wonder if you really want to index images in that manner, rather than just associate images with certain web pages. In other words, do you really want to search the image data, or do you just want images to appear alongside your normal html search results for presentation purposes?

You have largely a shopping site, with product pages like this:
http://www.vintagevogue.com/onlinestore/item8612.htm

Each of these product pages contain the actual information for the product that you may want to search. If you want the product image to appear next to these pages in the search results, you should use the ZOOMIMAGE meta tag to associate the product image with the product page. See this FAQ:
Q. How do I associate a thumbnail with a particular page?

At the moment, what you are offering is the ability to search for meta data within the image files themselves. So when you search for "300", you get all images with a width or height of 300, even when that has nothing to do with the product (the picture may be 300 pixels in width but that hardly helps a user find a product).

Another feature in Zoom that may be of interest is the Custom Meta Fields searching. This can provide a more e-commerce suited search function (given the appropriate data is specified). Read more about it here:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/support...ta_fields.html

[greendavies]

Ray,

Sorry for not replying sooner but I hadn't had time to check the forum recently.

To clarify, the website I mentioned in the previous post is not mine, just one that I found which had images indexed. An example of my search page is http://www.greendavies.co.uk/search/search.asp?zoom_query=Hall


I was already using the ZOOMIMAGE tag for my pages, but I also wanted to index the images contained in them. Subsequently, I have added EXIF data to the images and by indexing using the spider mode they now get indexed.

Thanks,

Philip.