Monday, June 8, 2009

SEO friendly Image hosting site wanted

As an unknown photographer I am looking for an image hosting site which is up-to-date with the latest SEO-guidelines from Google and other search engines. It should also support geotagging of photos witch I believe will become very popular in the next few years.

I have looked at more than 20 reviews of photo / image hosting sites and none of them takes SEO (Search engine optimization) into consideration. It should be an important part of a review.

I have also checked more than 20 sites myself and most of them – if not all - fail to comply to even simple SEO guidelines such as Page title, Meta description, Header tags and Duplicate pages.

As a result only a tiny fraction of the images on those sites can be found on Google and other image search engines.

I still hope to find a SEO friendly image hosting site with geotagging facilities, but my hope fades.


Update: 2009-06-08

Just found Comparison of Image Sharing Sites for Potential SEO Benefit.
However, it is a bit outdated and not very trustworthy as Smugmug – which I know very well – are given way to many Green V’s (Should have Red X in “Unique page titles”, “Optimized URL’s”, “Add external link to photo page” (brake if you move photo to another gallery), “Allow user comments on photo pages” (implemented with Java and not visible to robots), “Img alt text” (only partly).

Missing in this comparison are important issues like “Meta description” , “duplicate pages” and success rate of indexed images in popular image search engines like Google and Yahoo.

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