Comments on: Did Google Just Read the Text on My Image and Can This Affect My Rankings? https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/ SEO Blog | cognitiveSEO Blog on SEO Tactics & Strategies Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:49:26 +0300 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3 By: Giulio Stella https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-225079 Thu, 17 Oct 2019 16:49:26 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-225079 Definitely an Interesting article. I remember there was a time where Google couldn’t even read pdf documents. A lot of pdf docs are updated on High Authority domains, do you think it would be possible to rank one those pages ( we’ll add some content ) by taking advantages of these websites! Maybe in a niche which is not very competitive?
Let me know what you guys think.
Cheers

]]> By: Adam Youn https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-209563 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 17:06:00 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-209563 Really cool insight into image text & EXIF data, nicely put together. I’ve noticed more and more images using text in them than previous years. Looks like SEOs are specifically putting text in images. I’ll be running some tests myself in this area, thanks for the inspiration.

]]> By: Travis Baits https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-194546 Wed, 17 Jul 2019 17:50:32 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-194546 Can the XMP data of an MP4 be searched? If I put a transcript of the video in the XMP file, will it be able to search through the XMP data to locate keywords?

]]> By: Pankaj Sarma https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-180704 Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:06:29 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-180704 But after the march 12 updated of Google ( known as Florida 2) all sites with copied images are penalised. My site is also a victim.

]]> By: Chris Altamirano https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-160102 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 05:01:46 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-160102 Razvan!

Appreciate you taking the time to put this content together. I was checking out other sources online to see if the text over laying images was able to be crawled as well. Definitely got a lot of valuable content. That pop-up opt-in on the site is pretty craft as well. Those eyes are something else! hahah Thanks again!

]]> By: Pete D https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-70897 Wed, 14 Feb 2018 05:36:57 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-70897 Hi Razvan
I agree with you, Google definitely reads text in images, I just checked a couple of mine where the text only appears on the image as part of graphic, and Google displays that image in search results for the exact match key word.

Great article mate. thanks for the research.

]]> By: Luna https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-58507 Fri, 24 Nov 2017 03:16:41 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-58507 Hi, I’ve read your article and really got some useful information. Thanks a lot! Now I have a problem and want to ask you for an advice. I changed some of my products’ images so the links of images changed as well. Will this affect the SEO? (The alt of images are the same as before)

]]> By: Cornelia Cozmiuc https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-35883 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:57:48 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-35883 I think Google has the answer on this one. I will cite directly from the Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines from March 2017 :

The Lowest rating is appropriate if all or almost all of the main content on the page is copied with little or no time, effort, expertise, manual curation, or added value for users. Such pages should be rated Lowest, even if the page assigns credit for the content to another source.

Therefore, according to Google, copied content (regardless of its nature) can get you into trouble.

]]> By: 4 Horsemen SEO India https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-35838 Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:52:36 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-35838 Hi Razvan,
Thanks for the in-depth information, however i have a query:
Will there be any negative effect on the rankings of particular page if the page has a copied content from any other third party website in image form like (infographics & banner).

Thanks

]]> By: Razvan Gavrilas https://cognitiveseo.com/blog/5909/did-google-read-text-image-can-affect-my-rankings/#comment-35230 Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:44:35 +0000 http://cognitiveseo.com/blog/?p=5909#comment-35230 nice catch Matt. indeed Google has indexed text that was rendered as vectors 🙂

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