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cpettauer

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Google Search
Posted: 3 Dec 24, 17:41
 
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My website consists of many albums, like: https://public-transport.net/tram/Innsbruck/
It has a sitemap which was reported to Google Search Console, but the result is:
they found the pages, they are crawled, but at the end they are not indexed.

Has somebody an idea why they are not indexed?
And how to motivate Google to index all the pages and pictures?
Laza

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Re: Google Search
Posted: 4 Dec 24, 08:36   in response to: cpettauer in response to: cpettauer
 
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Google does find your pages, but they are not the top results. If you do an exact search, you'll see:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tyrolean+capital+has+a+metre-gauge+network%22
Finding individual images is much more challenging, as the album loads the images dynamically and only contains redirected slide pages, which Google is reluctant to index. To help Google find each picture, I'd suggest displaying the captions below each thumbnail and setting preloaded thumbnails to 500. (Settings / Tiger / Advanced / Number of preloaded thumbnails = 500)
cpettauer

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Re: Google Search
Posted: 9 Sep 25, 09:18   in response to: Laza in response to: Laza
 
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Hello,
coming back to that, isn't there another solution?
Because what Google displays are only the album's folder symbols.
The Tiger album is very attractive, is there really no solution?
Laza

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Re: Google Search
Posted: 9 Sep 25, 11:16   in response to: cpettauer in response to: cpettauer
 
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I'm not sure if you meant "Google finds the album's folder symbols" means a generic folder icon, or if you mean that Google doesn't see the individual pictures.

Google is a tool for finding web pages, not for indexing individual pictures within a page. I tried to trick their bots with individual slide pages, but that didn't work.

If Google really shows the generic icons instead of the selected folder image, that could be due to a bug.
JeffTucker

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Re: Google Search
Posted: 10 Sep 25, 01:08   in response to: cpettauer in response to: cpettauer
 
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cpettauer wrote:
....how to motivate Google to index all the pages and pictures?

No one knows. I don't mean just within the jAlbum community - I mean that no one, anywhere outside of the Google inner sanctum - knows how to achieve this result. And as soon as someone figures it out, and starts "gaming" the system to make his site show up on the first page of search results, Google changes what it's doing, in order to thwart him.

There are crooks out there who will charge you exorbitant fees to improve your Google visibility. Mostly what they do is post spammy links to your site on sites like this one. They're wasting their time here, of course - we clobber them very quickly.

Google's image indexing is particularly terrible. Search for an image of someone you know. You'll get either no results, or links to pages with pictures of completely unrelated individuals. A page about the person you're looking for might not have an image of him, but the Google indexing picks up a photo of someone or something else that happens to be in a footer on the page.
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