Can a theme (Purpress) prevent images from being indexed in Google Images?

I wanted to know if it is possible for a particular WP theme not to lend itself to images being indexed in Google.

Not as far as I know…

Thanks esmi! Any other ideas what it could be?

Are you giving your images good, human-readable and keyword-rich titles?

Indeed! Here is an example:

<a href="https://diynaildesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fall-turkey-nail-designs.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-769" style="border: 2px solid black; margin: 5px;" title="Fall Turkey Nail Designs" src="https://diynaildesigns.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fall-turkey-nail-designs-300x194.jpg" alt="DIY Fall Turkey Nail Art Manicure" width="300" height="194" /></a>

If you have any changes, please let me know…

Thanks for your continued help!

What is in your robots.txt file? How old is the site?

I’m not sure why you think there is a problem. You’re getting good google ranking: Google results

Thanks! I think the problem is specific to Google Images, not Google Ranking in general, since my site doesn’t have a single image indexed out of like 250 or so. One of my other sites only has about 8 images total and most (not all) of them are indexed. My Joomla site has no problem getting images indexed. To me it seems like something is off, since I don’t have even one image indexed after months and months of working on the site. Most of the images I publish on this site are 100% unique, taken with my own camera or from someone I’ve hired to do photography for my site.

Here is the Robots file:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cgi-bin/1

The site itself is over a year old – at least 14 months. It used to be in Blogger and I moved it over to WP early this summer. I am not as familiar with WP as I am with Joomla, so I was thinking maybe I didn’t have a certain setting set correctly or something.

Thanks again!!

Also, in the results you provided, someone is completely ripping off my content – thanks for posting that so now I know… looks like I have other problems to deal with. They are taking photos and all – AND to boot, MY photos are showing up in THEIR results for google images…. Not sure what I can even do about that…

In fact, 13 of the images showing on the first page of search for their site are my images, poached. All of the nail art photos but 1 are taken directly from my site.

Could this have anything to do with why mine are not being indexed?

someone is completely ripping off my content

Oh – I missed that! Too busy looking for your urls.

Have a look at the advice given in https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/10/what-do-you-do-when-someone-steals-your-content/

Still not sure why your images aren’t showing up in Google Images. In theory, they should still show up for your site as well even when they’ve been poached by someone else. Is your blogger site still running at all? Have you created & submitted a Google XML sitemap?

OMG you are right – I never took the blogspot down after I moved my domain from blogger platform to WP even though I was using my custom domain… The old site is https://diynaildesigns.blogspot.com/. But I think I told it not to show up in search engines…

Could this be the reason? Now what?

Also, I do have sitemaps submitted for the regular sitemap as well as the image sitemap.

The image sitemap did show fewer images in google webmaster tools than I actually have in the WP library.

Thanks for taking a look at my issue.

But I think I told it not to show up in search engines…

Could you redirect all traffic to the new site instead? If the blogger site has been around for a while, you might as well take advantage of that.

Perhaps – but I always used the diynaildesigns.com URL, even with the blogger platform. I never had the url diynaildesigns.blogspot.com – it is just what was left when I moved my domain… Would that still matter? I am not sure how to do a redirect for blogspot since I don’t technically own the .blogspot url…

Appreciate your thoughts and tips!

I’d still be look at removing all links and navigation from the front page of the blogspot site and just having a redirection message on there.

We’ve moved! Come on over to our new site on https://diynaildesigns.com

If Google is indexing the old site, it will catch on pretty quickly. It can’t possibly hurt and might help a little.

Thanks! I will see what I can do about that. Do you think it has anything to do with the images not indexing?

Possibly but not likely, in my opinion. Do you have a Google Webmaster account? Is anything untoward showing up in there? How often is Google indexing/visiting your site?