Not sure if you're using Magic OGP to help out with some of that or not, but it'll help identify at least one default image for GSC to pick up. If you have a post with at least one attached image, it'll pick one to produce the follow dynamic page code.
It adds this metadata code from a topic or a post result:If you want the Googlebot-image user-agent to find your attached images, it wouldn't hurt to give it access to the folder where those are located in robots.txt. Sometimes it helps to explicitly tell it where to look.Create a Spider/Robots user agent in ACP (General tab)And lastly, Googlebot-Image will give priority to images that have descriptions of what the images are of. This helps Google categorize such images, thus helping those searching for such images to find them. Images without descriptions or descriptive filenames simply get associated with your site, but ranked at the bottom of other searches, if they even show up in search results, because Google can't identify images on its own yet.
It adds this metadata code from a topic or a post result:
Code:
<meta property="og:image" content="https://www.domain.com/download/file.php?id=410027&mode=view">Code:
User-agent: GooglebotDisallow:Disallow: /app.php/feedDisallow: /feed.phpDisallow: /ucp.phpUser-agent: Googlebot-imageDisallow:Allow: /*.gif$Allow: /*.png$Allow: /*.jpeg$Allow: /*.jpg$Allow: /*.ico$Allow: /imagesAllow: /Downloads...Code:
Bot Name = whateverBot Style = Prosilver (default)Bot Language = whateverBot Active = YesAgent Match = Googlebot-imageStatistics: Posted by SQLnovice — Fri Mar 28, 2025 4:17 am
