Hi.
I have this website based on K2 www.baalbyg.dk

The images on THIS page are renamed after I upload them to the website. Now they are named something like 398a8bc2e3f7f879ff0986359513be80_S.jpg

This is of course not very SEO friendly.

How do I control the titles of the images?

I have named the images correctly before I upload them via K2.

Kind regards
Vivi

I found the answer here:

getk2.org/community/New-to-K2-Ask-here-first/159552-Image-Name-and-SEO

One of my clients is really unhappy about this. I still don't understand why the filenames are messed up. None of the K2 images on that client's site are found by Google.

Unfortunately the link to the answer(?) does not work anymore:

"An invalid post ID was requested."

Any other hints? Anyone at getk2 who cares?

This has to do with Joomla!'s default robot.txt which blocks access to the /media and /images folders not with you K2.

You have to edit your robots.txt and comment out (using a hash infront # ) the lines that disallow the crawling of the media and images folder

Thanks for your reply, Krikor. I've done as you said, and now I curious to see what happens. What I still don't understand is how Google is supposed to index images with names such as d61d44254608dd06ccdd2ff02982d14d_S.jpg, when it would easily be found with a regular name such as MyCoolImage.jpg (if someone was searching for "cool image").
And what is the reasoning behind encrypting file names in the first place?

Yes,

Imagine a news site with 20K articles and the mess you would have with lets say pics of Obama.
Google will index these images because it relies on the alt and title attributes which K2 provides.

So what? Call it d61d44254608dd06ccdd2ff02982d14d_Obama_in_Texas.jpg. Or 1234_Obama_in_Texas.jpg
Ideal, I think, would be a switch, so users/developers could choose. Anyway, we'll see if our images get indexed, now that I changed robots.txt
Thank you!

Krikor Boghossian wrote: Yes,

Imagine a news site with 20K articles and the mess you would have with lets say pics of Obama.
Google will index these images because it relies on the alt and title attributes which K2 provides.

Sorry but i think you need to update your SEO knowledge.

Google is going more semantic day after day. With a correct image filename Google Image can be the "second" search engine, and Google Knowledge Graph give a very high value to how an image is named.

bit.ly/16Ump1z

Without a proper filename I can not expect google to index, for example, the images in a gallery, because they usually have the same alt and title or not have them at all!

Sorry but K2 is doing it wrong. I'm with who are suggesting a "switch" for the file naming.

Please anyone got any solution? yet? I am new to K2 and my website isnt indexed at all in Google Images
none of my 500+ pictures is indexed at all!! (since 2012)
P.s I cannot write php code as suggesteed in gavickPRO or access any ht files on the server.

@Labros Maninos

Hi. If your images are not indexed at all it's because of the default robots.txt file that Joomla! includes which tells the bots not to index at all the media folder. Edit the robots.txt file and change that. Your images should be indexed fine.

I recently deleted the line /images let's see if that helps..
also i wrote disallow: /author/*

@Labros Maninos

The images in K2 are stored under the media folder as i already told you. Not in the images folder. The line you need to delete is the following:

Thank you, i figured it out later and restored the line disallow /images/.
Should i try /item/? So that googlebot crawls only one url per item?
How much time will it take to see if some images are indexed?

No, this is not working like that. You just declare the paths you want to be indexed or not. If you have removed the "Disallow: /media/" then all the media files will be indexed if they are found in the page source. Regarding the time, this is something i cannot tell for sure.