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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:11:21+00:00

I’m trying to understand how can I do to let my site be reachable

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I’m trying to understand how can I do to let my site be reachable from google image search spiders.
I like how last.fm solution, and I thought to use a technique like his staff do to let google find artists images on their pages.

When I’m looking for an artist and I search it on google image search, as often as not I find an image from last.fm artists page, I make an example:

If I search the band Pure Reason Revolution It brings me here, the artist’s image page
http://www.last.fm/music/Pure+Reason+Revolution/+images/4284073

Now if I take a look to the image file, i can see it’s named:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/4284073/Pure+Reason+Revolution+4.jpg
so if I try to understand how the service works I can try to say:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/ the server who serve the images
500/ the selected size for the image
4284073/ the image id for database
Pure+Reason+Revolution+4.jpg the image name

I thought it’s difficult to think the real filename for the image is Pure+Reason+Revolution+4.jpg for image overwrite problems when an user upload it, in facts, if I digit:
http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/4284073.jpg
I probably find the real image location and filename

I see this can be done with mod_rewrite engine, but with this tecnique, will the image be highly reachable from search engines and easily archived?

My question is, does exist some guide or tutorial to approach on this kind of tecniques, or something similar?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In my opinion, the best resource for your question is Google itself.

    One of the guides targets at google images search and provides some guidelines:

    • Don’t embed text inside images
    • Tell us as much as you can about the image
      • Give your images detailed, informative filenames
      • Create great alt text
      • Anchor text
    • Provide good context for your image
    • Think about the best ways to protect your images
    • Create a great user experience

    Source: Images – Webmaster Tools Help.

    As for last.fm, one of the suggestions is:

    Give your images detailed, informative
    filenames

    The filename can give Google clues
    about the subject matter of the image.
    Try to make your filename a good
    description of the subject matter of
    the image. For example,
    my-new-black-kitten.jpg is a lot more
    informative than IMG00023.JPG.
    Descriptive filenames can also be
    useful to users: If we’re unable to
    find suitable text in the page on
    which we found the image, we’ll use
    the filename as the image’s snippet in
    our search results.

    So yes, last.fm uses mod_rewrite to give informative filename, which google likes.

    There are few more guides out there. None of them is formal, but they can help you anyway:

    http://www.tareeinternet.com/forum/seo/236-optimizing-google-image-search.html

    http://www.doshdosh.com/how-to-optimize-for-google-images-for-more-traffic/

    http://creativebits.org/webdev/optimize_your_site_for_google_image_search

    http://www.pearsonified.com/2007/01/get_53_percent_more_searches_with_one_tweak.php

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