Forum:Do Wikia images ever show up in a search?

I gave some images intentionally unique names and they never show up. I expected that they wouldn't easily unless the wiki became really good. The site itself shows up now, but not images at all. And with the site itself, it shows up sporadically, sometimes a search of the sites title (The Finger Lakes Wiki) will bring up an article such as Area Records and Music, yet searching 'area records and music wiki' on google will not bring up the wiki. I use that example because a month ago searching just 'area records and music' without wiki brought up the article before their website. All strange, but I guess it's the stability I would expect from such an open site. Daniel Christensen 21:20, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

It all just seems very sporadic. Sometimes articles that will show up in a broad Google search are later impossible to get to show up no matter how specific the search is. Daniel Christensen 21:22, June 2, 2010 (UTC)

But is it true that images will never show up even if they're exact name is searched and it's a specific name?


 * Can be hit and miss in my searches with google and others looking for images/pages on the wiki. Overall I get better hits from Bing (according to the wiki stats). But I do find my images in searches some times on the first page and at other times it can be on page 10. Other sites traffic will effect how they rate against you i suppose. I name all files with a descriptive title, but a lot of images sites have all sorts of tags attached to images so dont know how it effects the rating/weighting by the search engine. You have some good photos on there so you should get some click through traffic IMO. - BulldozerD11 23:40, June 2, 2010 (UTC)


 * It will depend on what the wiki's default search setting are, if it searches the File/Image namespace in addition to the (main) article namespace then it will show up in a search. You can always also search the File/Image namespace by selecting it on you advance search if the default does not include it. —Roguebfl(talk) 23:41, June 2, 2010 (UTC)