Comments on: Hey You! Stop Posting Naked Photos Online

By: Jason Collin Photography

Jason Collin Photography — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:46:39 +0000

Thanks for these tips. I have started to always use a caption under photographs now even if it is repetitive to the description of the photograph in the body of the blog post.

Thanks for confirming it is a good thing to be doing.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:24:45 +0000

Nicholas,thanks, definitely helps and have set it all up for myself now

By: david sanger

david sanger — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:46:59 +0000

Joe Laratro : Actually Google still doesn't read inside the file, only test on the page, so if you want to add copyright, EXIF info etc you have to have it visible on the page. They do however take not of the filename,

What Peter Linsley actually said at 11:19 is

"Fundamentally the impetus to all of image search is a text query and the extent to which you have a lot of descriptive text that is on topic and talks about what's in the image, maybe you want to expose EXIF data, maybe.. the image was taken, maybe it has a nice title across the top, all those sort of things are really good clues for us to figure out when an image is relevant enough but more importantly it is useful for the end user. They can read the description, read the caption and learn a lot more about the image,"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Zaj0CAUoU#t=11m19s

shortURL : Google Image Search http://j.mp/Vzhlc

By: Nicholas McIntosh

Nicholas McIntosh — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:58:24 +0000

Roberta,
As part of my regular workflow, I use Adobe's Photo Downloader to automatically add metadata from a saved file I made in Bridge. You can also do it in bridge manually. I usually go back into bridge and add shoot specific data that can't be added with the general file... things like shoot location, subject name, rights granted.
HTH

By: Larry Gatz

Larry Gatz — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:35:02 +0000

Here, here...metadata is very important for a lot more reasons that SEO and Google. Think about the Orphan Works problem.

The industry needs to put real pressure on companies like Adobe to make sure that the metadata remains in place rather than being stripped out as it is now...by "Save for web".

By: Roberta

Roberta — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:16:27 +0000

Thanks for the post John - great to have this all confirmed.

Nicholas (and John) I was wondering what the best way to add photo metadata is. I always add through my site, but then should you be addding it in Photoshop as well?

By: Joe Laratro

Joe Laratro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:03:29 +0000

There have been plenty of talk from people directly at Google that Google Image search does pay attention to file metadata. This is a bit of a secret in the industry. If you don't believe it, then please don't use it.

This is official from Google and mentions it around 11 min mark...

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/03/get-up-to-date-on-image-search.html

By: Nicholas McIntosh

Nicholas McIntosh — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:39:41 +0000

thanks for this post. now i need to go and redo all of those images i had photoshop "save for web," since that method of saving strips all metadata to decrease filesize and load time.

By: Gareth Robins

Gareth Robins — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:47:54 +0000

This post has come at a really good time for me. I've just started my wedding photography business and SEO is very important for me to get to the front page of Google for Auckland Wedding Photographer and New Zealand Wedding photographer keywords. I've built my site using Showit Sites from http://www.showitfast.com They split a flash site into different HTML containers for each page, enabling me to have the look of a fancy flash site, and have the content searched by Google. In the very near future Showit are releasing an update that promises to produce the only flash sites where images are picked up by Google. I'm not an expert at all of this my any means, but I am currently re-tagging all of my images in preparation for this launch. http://www.spilledmilkdesigns.com/blog/2009/09/20/seo-update-for-showit/ Love to know what you think of this.

By: Scott Baradell

Scott Baradell — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:05:41 +0000

Hi Paul -- John does mention that; he's just saying that it's smart to be prepared for when search engines do begin to index metadata.

By: Paul Melcher

Paul Melcher — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:51:16 +0000

John,

Google does not index metadata.