I'm currently having the images on my site keyworded. For every image,
around 20 keywords are defined. Here is an example:
www.molon.de/galleries/China/Guandong/Guangzhou/Town/img.php?pic=8
The keywording project has been going on since June and should be
completed by December, with all 8500 images of the site keyworded.
I used to show the keywords in a box below the image. Clicking on a
keyword would launch a search on the site for the keyword.
The problem is that instead of improving the search engine hits, the
keywords have apparently had a negative impact on the site's traffic.
It's as if Google was thinking I was trying to spam my way up the
rankings.
So in September I made the keywords invisible again (they are only
indexed by the internal search engine of the site - for demonstration
purposes I have reactivated temporarily the keywords of the Downtown
Guangzhou photo gallery).
What am I doing wrong and how to make Google index the keywords with no
search engine penalty for the site? The clickable keyword feature is
actually a very useful feature and I hated having to disable it.
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Alfred Molon
http://www.molon.de - Photos of Asia, Africa and Europe
