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Sep 22.2016

We launched a new website design late February and since then 99% of our large product images do not show up on Google Image Search. We monitored the Image impressions after the launch of the new design, and the images impressions immediately dropped from nearly 30,000 to now 2,000. The only images that show up in the image search are the small thumbnails and not the full resolution images that the thumbnails link to. We did not mess with the image directories or any page directories… it was purely cosmetic. What could of triggered such drop?

From my understanding Google bots should follow the thumbs href to the full-res image, and index it. Is this correct?

We have been fighting this for months now, and no one can give us a straight answer. Images are a critical part of our business and this is a detremental blow to our business.
I have a thread on Google’s forum from May 2016 with some information of what other’s have suggested: [url]https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/ZwQ6-71bB-4;context-place=starred[/url]

We already made some suggested modifications such as adding titles to the large image in the lightbox, we made sure ALL images have 301 redirect to make sure they are served as https, and we also brought back the “View Detailed Images” link which we hid initially on the new design.

The website experiencing this phenomenon is – [url]www.tstindustries.com[/url]

Thank you very much in advance for any input/help

Sergio

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@SergioRibeiroauthorSep 23.2016 — Anyone have any suggestions or experienced a similar occurrence?

Here are snippets of the code for the images.

Thumbnails linking to large images:
[code=html]<a href="http://localhost/tst/images/D/N300_INT_magnifier1.jpg" class="lightbox cboxElement" rel="dpimages" title="TST Industries Kawasaki Ninja 300 Integrated Taillight">
<img src="http://localhost/tst/images/D.cache.dpicon/144.jpg" alt="TST Industries Kawasaki Ninja 300 Integrated Taillight" title="TST Industries Kawasaki Ninja 300 Integrated Taillight" width="64" height="40">
</a>[/code]

Lightbox & Large Images:
[code=html]<div id="cboxLoadedContent" style="width: 530px; overflow: auto; height: 330px;">
<img src="http://localhost/tst/images/D/N300_INT_magnifier1.jpg" id="cboxPhoto" alt="TST Industries Kawasaki Ninja 300 Integrated Taillight" style="border: none; display: block; float: none; cursor: pointer; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;">
</div>[/code]

Please, any input/suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Sergio
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@Kevin2Sep 23.2016 — Shouldn't [B]localhost[/B] in your img src attributes be: [B]www.tstindustries.com[/B] ? If that's really what you have Google can't access localhost.
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@SergioRibeiroauthorSep 23.2016 — Yes, that's my fault. I have a clone on my localhost and pulled those snippets from my localhost instead of the live site. BUT, the live site is rendering the same exact thing, with the exception of src urls.

Do you have any suggestions or ideas to why this happening Kevin?

I've been developing websites for 10+ years and I've never seen anything like this. It started happening the moment I uploaded the new design...directories didn't change, core code didn't change, and it like someone flipped a switch.
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@Kevin2Sep 23.2016 — The W3C validator is throwing this error on the link to your large images:
Error: Bad value dpimages for attribute rel on element a: The string dpimages is not a registered keyword.[/quote]
Lesson: you can't make up random rel attribute values -- they must be "registered" with W3C. Google, or its bot, may be choking on that rel attribute and not indexing the linked image(s).

Other than that I have no clue.
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@SergioRibeiroauthorSep 23.2016 — Correct me if I'm wrong, if this was the case wouldn't ALL the a tags with the rel=dpimages be suppressed? Right now about 2 or 3 products do show their large images. And the site is an X-Cart site which dynamically generates all the product pages (including the a tags) from the same source file. Not to mention that, that same file didn't change from the previous design, and back then we had great traction in Google Images.

Also, just a month prior to launching the new design (when it all started happening), we switched the entire site from http to https. I did receive some feedback from a "Google Expert" telling me that this is the cause of the issue, since then (back in June) I have added a 301 redirect to the entire site to make sure everything is served as https. Not sure how much validity his feedback has, but we made the redirect anyway.

I appreciate you looking into this Kevin2, really.
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