Google will decide based on a number of factors including making sure that your blog post content is valuable, relevant, and well-written. Consistently publishing high-quality, optimized images and content can improve your chances of appearing in Google Images over time. But remember the level of competition in your niche can also affect the visibility of your images. Highly competitive niches may make it more challenging to rank in image searches.
We recommend that you read and do everything from our support article Our SEO Philosophy first. Once you’ve published it to your website we suggest that the first thing you do is head to Google Console and index your page. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts say “Every website needs to be indexed to stand any chance of getting traffic from Google“. However, this still doesn’t mean that all your images will show up in Google Images, it just means you are in the game.
To index your webpage, head to Google Console. On the left select “URL Inspection” and then in the search bar above, paste the website url of your blog post on your website.
Once you index your page this will help. But it’s not a guarantee.
For example, this blog post on my website https://gracejones.co.nz/stories/narrows-landing-hamilton-waikato-michael-rose has been indexed and Google has crawled the site. However, if I google the title of the blog post “The Narrows Landing Waikato Wedding Photographer” hardly any of my images appear in Google images as this is a high competitive Google search tag. If I add Rose or Michael to the end of that search query, more of my images appear in Google Images. If I go back to web results, I’m the 8th link on the first page of the Google web search. So I’m as they say in the game but not leading.
The images that I really want to show up when people Google “The Narrows Landing Waikato Wedding Photographer”, should have those direct alt tags, but not all images from your blog post should have this. You can add specific Alt Tags in Storytailor. On the image, click the code icon. Then overwrite the Alt Tags that you specifically want for that specific image.
Remember that search engine optimization (SEO) is an ongoing process. It can take some time to see results, and you may need to monitor your website’s performance and make adjustments over time to improve image visibility in Google Images.