Seo

Liz,

I dont know much about this, but I have question for you. Are you using the Google Images feature or a plain Google search?

Dave

Google Images, but plain Google search doesn't seem any better, again for one test image, my own site page, written around 2006 -ish, in deprecated tables, and intouched since is on the second page, and I can't find the FAA page in the first five returned pages. That's even when I removed all cookies/history/cache on IE (I usually use FF, IE is for checking stuff like this).
I get directed to Google.co.uk, I don't know how to force my way into google.com; but as I'm based in the UK, showing highly on google.co.uk would be desireable too.

Liz, a Google image search for your name brings up Fineartamerica first on my end, then Twitter, then Fineartamerica again with the exception of Nytpick on position 14.

Pinterest on the other hand seems to come up often these days instead of the original source.

A google image search for my name gives me mostly my images on FAA from a variety of doors, some pixels, some faa, some artistwebsite. Just a few are me from elsewhere and a few are the other nancy ingersolls out there.

Google tailors your searches for you. You are not seeing what i would see for instance

Liz Leyden

I had to put in Liz Leyden Artist or I came up with a younger women who graduated Loomis Chaffee more recently. Loomis is
a local private high school, one of the top five private high schools in the US. I just checked against that first search without
the title "artist" and you are top of the second page. You do own that second page pretty much from top to bottom.

I might have come up with the Loomis results because my younger sister went to Loomis, and our last name keeps our search
results to some degree related in Google's workings along with my proximity to the school. Might have being the operative words.

Generally the top 8 results on the first page are what matters to being found by many more people.

Dave

I wasn't talking about googling my name. No-one would search me by name thinking to buy an image. I was searching on the main keyword for a variety of my images here, like I said: "Of course, I checked, and the appropriate search terms are in the title, keywords and description.".

Google search results are in a constant state of flux and when they roll out big updates to the algo there can be major shifts. It's just the way the search works.

Sites images and individual pages fall in and out of favor all the time.

I think everybody is getting a little too focused on Google results, to find if your SEO strategy is working fully you need to check the results on a range of different search engines.
If you are getting significantly different results on Bing or Yahoo than with Google then you are doing something wrong. (Remember all it takes is somebody coming up with a better search algorithm and Google is just another also ran.)

I see the following Google image search results:

rhino canvas print

FAA appears 1st


rhino artwork

FAA on position 4

(On position 6 btw. Pinterest with Fineartamerica Pins - when I click on them itīs asking to sign up, not forwarding to the source.)

For a major but very general search term like "Canvas Prints" FAA is on page 2.


I pointed out the search results for your name because there FAA appears first, before The Sunday Times or Istockphoto.

Do you have a set of keywords where you see a drop?

John, excellent point