Ron,
Looks like the replies above didn't understand what you were getting at.
What you are really asking is if using a lightbox is keeping Google from being able to see that there is an image there.
It really depends on how the lightbox is coded. For a long time, Google was terrible at reading pretty much any kind of script coding like Javascript and they could not read Flash at all. They have gotten much better at that.
What I would do is take a look at the text version in Google's cache of your website. If you see your ALT tag showing up in the text version, that means Google is aware of the image. If you don't, they are not getting through your lightbox code and seeing it.
To the rescue. I probably did not explain it well. But yes, that is it exactly. I double checked the source code and the images all show with standard IMG tags, so I should be good.
Yes, I remember years back reading that search engines did not do well with JS, probably why I was questioning.
And good idea about checking G's text version of the cache, I did not think about that. Will do.
Course my site got slapped some time back, so can't expect my images to rank either. Hopefully I can fix it, or try.
Appreciate the reply
Sorry Ron, I completely read over the light-box comment.
As SEOPub stated, I would check to see if Google is seeing the ALT text, if they are, and I am kind of betting they are if the page and light-box are coded correctly, then they are seeing the images.
Sorry for for response above that missed the mark.
And here we "thought" you were one of the good posters
JK
No worries. Like I said, I probably did not explain it well.
I suppose Mike001 mentioned to the problem that Ron asking. the problem is he didn't say it directly and explaining according to a common way.
Ron,
I will go with the reply of SEOPub, it depends on your codes.
If possible, you can make the screenshots or share your website link where you realized that Google could not see or cache your images on your page/website?
We can check from there and we can easily check if Google stored your images into their database or ignore them when G spiders crawl your website.
Mike did just fine. He's one of the good guys
Thanks, but I'll do as SEOPub suggested in his other reply.
No need to share your website on a public forum Ron.
All you have to do is go to the Google search bar and type
cache:
http://yourdomainhere.com
Then you will see a link that says, "Text-only version". Click that and take a look at what you see.
Appreciate it, that is what I will be doing.
