Image machine, SEO, display:none;

[monkeyevil]

In an attempt to push my product images to Google image search, I'm using the toolkit to add all my image machine images to the page, then using display:none; to hide this array from the browser.

I'm doing this under a couple assumptions:

1. Spiders are currently not parsing the javascript that calls the images
2. Adding page load times is worth the SEO content
3. Google is not penalizing me for "hiding" these images

So, what do you think? Are my assumptions correct? Is there a better way I could be doing this?

Product page example:

http://www.jcroffroad.com/product/JKVF.html

The code:

<mvt:item name="toolkit" param="customimagec|big|g.product_code||700|400|1" /> <mvt:if expr="g.big">
   <mvt:foreach iterator="image" array="toolkitadditionalimages">
    <span style="display:none;">


      <mvt:if expr="NOT ISNULL l.settings:image:generated:image">
       <img src="&mvt:global:imageroot;&mvte:image:generated:image;" alt="&mvte:product:name;" title="&mvte:product:name;">
      <mvt:else>
        <img src="&mvt:global:imageroot;&mvte:image:image:image;" alt="&mvte:product:name;" title="&mvte:product:name;">
      </mvt:if>


    </span>
   </mvt:foreach>
 </mvt:if>

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Re: Image machine, SEO, display:none;

Why not submit an image sitemap, or add images to your existing sitemap?

I would also recommend a proper Open Graph implementation, possibly structured data as well, though there are some considerations there. I only see a few Open Graph tags implemented on your product pages, with the og:image tag providing a dead image url that appears to be from original development under jcroffroad.mivamerchant.net.

<meta property="og:image" content="http://jcroffroad.mivamerchant.net/images/design/shieildfacebooklikelogo.png"/>

You may be submitting other sitemaps I am not aware of, however sitemap.xml for this store is currrently submitting dynamic urls and dated January 10th of 2006: http://www.jcroffroad.com/sitemap.xml

Your robots.txt file doesn't appear to be blocking access to image files, which is good. (This is a common issue based on older stores or previous "SEO" strategies)

I could go on and on here. If you have the budget, might be worth us doing a marketing analysis for your store. I personally have experience in your competitive market and I think this would be of value to your store/marketing strategies.

[monkeyevil]

Re: Image machine, SEO, display:none;

Thanks for the heads up.
I do submit an updated sitemap using Emporium Plus's Module, but you're right, I haven't even paid attention to how it's implemented.

I'll PM you as well.