Any ideas how to get something ranked highly in Google Images? Seems to follow a completely different algorithm to web pages! Any help much appreciated

Dom/www.nordicarts.com

Good question. Would like to know that too

Will be sure to let all know once I've cracked it! Can be "frustrating" when you have a marketable product and there's countless images of somebody's ***** cat ranked higher than your image lol

Their are two factors as far as I am aware:

What in the ALT tag for the image

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if the keywords are in your filename.

Other factor that may be included are: Page title that you are on and the Page rank of the page, However these are not so sure about.

For dip molding, my site is #1 The same site is the top PR. Thsi has been the case for a very long time. On my home page there is a jpg alt = dip molding - plastic coating.

On my optimized dip molding page, a picture is named Dip_Molding_Balloons.jpg The alt tag includes dip molding.

Google does not use a single image from my site. But the do use images from peripheral sites named things like pic1.jpg

I cannot figure it, and dont care, because the image pages have no PR.

Should I care?

Larry your right that is weird, I can't make much sense out of that. Personally I wouldn't be too worried, I can't expect you would get much useful traffic for dip molding through image search, usuial you just get people stealing images, However sometime it is useful for people selling poster of pictures of celebrities. Nixies

Right, does not bother me.

I am not dyslexic and my spelling stinks.

Google image crawler is very very slow....
I have noticed if you have many pictures on your site. You have a got a good chance googlebot waking google image crawler to go and index you.

You will see most of teh picture gallery files are indexed by image crawler. Just put a picture gallery in your site and wait for months.

You will get crawled..
Just lots of text with keywords nearby. Otherise mostly it rely on name of pic, and html title, page url...

-- Just my opinion ---