Thumbnail pics at beginning of posts interfere with google crawler

[Darlene Darragh]

It was a Wordpress Conference held in Toronto. It was the first one I have ever attended and had guest speakers. I asked about some issues I was having re: google crawlers and some errors I was having re: google webmaster analytics and it was mentioned that pics should not be at the beginning.

I put these thumbnails in only for the purposes of having them display on the front page. It sounds like what you have said that it will push me down re: search engines down further or I should remove them on posts. I could save a thumnail image and then use it in the custom field to generate the pic on the front page and then remove them completely from the post content itself so that the crawler doesn't find them. Does that make sense?

I think I was using the title and description a bit wrong as well again impacting the search engines. For example on my Michael Jackson Chit Chat site I had a subject called 'Conrad Murray delayed treatment while covering up evidence'. I think I should keep this as the title (permatag link is the same) but then put something else in description e.g. Michael Jackson doctor covers up evidence). Does this make sense. I assume I can change titles and descriptions but the permalink is the thing not to change as it creates not found pages later. Does that sound correct?

P.S. Thanks for the help. The search engine issues are new to me and I am wading through lots of documents but they all say different stuff or are a little confusing.

Darlene