Images in search results?

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  inkwellfiles · Member · Mar 1, 2013 at 5:05 pm

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  Is there any way to make images visible in the search results? My blog is about a comic strip, so I’d like the comics to be visible in the results. The text often lacks context without them.

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 2, 2013 at 1:55 am

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  You can put in a detailed Description on the image, which should help. Images do better in Google than blog posts do, it seems, so there are no handicaps to image heavy blogs.

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Mar 2, 2013 at 3:15 am

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  Aside from what Raincoaster said, if you are looking for images to appear in your internal search results (for example, this: http://theslylockfiles.wordpress.com/?s=mouse ), the answer is “sort of”. You can see that some themes have it by default:

  (free) http://depomastheaddemo.wordpress.com/?s=cherry
  (premium) http://pinboarddemo.wordpress.com/?s=lights&submit=Search
  (premium) http://bloccodemo.wordpress.com/?s=video&submit=%E2%86%92

  So if you can find a theme that you like that has images in search results, then you are good to go.

  There are ways to do it with a self-hosted blog (such as the Get the Image plugin). And you could also find/hack/modify a theme that has images in search results (or force it to via the aforementioned hacking/modifying). But that is a whole different ball of wax and may not be what you are looking for.

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