Why am i on Google Images? Wedding Website Venting

Any photo you put on the Internet is going to go to Google images. Public social media pages, if you have a work website with staff photos, etc. So you were fine with people being able to find your website which, in turn, would lead them to your photos, but not the fact that they can find your photos on Google images?

When you post photos on any public site on the internet it will show up under google images.

My FH wasn't to thrilled they were on google images. He said he worked so hard making sure he didn't have his photos on there until this. I didn't think it mattered but he did and that was an argument waiting to happen and I didn't want it to happen.

What Caytlyn said is true, most photos posted in a searchable site will show up in google images, the best options is to make your site hidden so it won’t show up on search results.

I would talk with you Fiance about the wedding website and what you are both okay with having up there. Even if a website is private / no searchable there’s still a chance something made get through to google. Maybe there’s one or two pictures he’s okay with if they pop up on google images? Maybe you just skip the pictures

If you want a private wedding website here’s some starting tips for getting a private one up and running:

https://offbeatbride.com/private-wedding-website/
https://help.theknot.com/knowledgebase/articles/503923-remove-your-wedding-website-from-search-engines
https://engagedsupport.weddingwire.com/hc/en-us/articles/115003848763-Make-Wedding-Website-Searchable

View Quoted Comment I have numerous of social media accounts and I never had an issue until now.

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Did you not discuss having a wedding website with him before setting it up?

Google can pretty much index any site on the internet. This would include your wedding website so it’s not super surprising your images would come up if you Googled your names - especially if they are less common names or you included words on the site (like ceremony location or something) in your search. Maybe have pictures where your faces aren’t shown like close ups of your ring or skip the photos all together. Maybe also remove your last names from the site and make it password protected if you would like to make it a bit more private.

You take that risk when you post any picture on the internet.

View Quoted Comment This depends on your privacy settings. If you’re posting photo on FB under “public” setting or on IG (unless your account is set to private), all photos will show up in Google images. How high they show up (meaning are they on 1st or on 20th page, where nobody will likely see them) depends on how common your name is & how your post is ranked based on number of likes, shares, etc. This is how social media works! When you open an account, you’re signing that you accept these terms.

With wedding website, it’s the same. If you set your site to public - it will be PUBLIC. That’s what the word public means. If you set it to private & provide access code to your guests only, then it won’t show up in Google images, and only the link to your website will show in Google search (if someone searches for your names). Many wedding websites also have option to make only certain pages hidden / private, so you can do that for your Photos page. Or post no photos.

This is a very mainstream situation, so you shouldn’t be upset with Knot or Google lol. Next time, it’s probably a good idea to read all terms & conditions of a site before you decide to use it, if you’re not familiar with these standard practices.

If any of your social media are private they will not show on google. You can have your wedding website private. Just make sure guest know the password.
Heada up on the wedding pictures because you’ll not have control over that and they’ll be on google. Photographers own the rights to photos and they often post it on social media, blogs and other sites that are all completely public.

You can click on your profile and also see photos of your fiancé on here as well. Is he okay with that?

View Quoted Comment He knew about wedding websites but I did not tell him about ours but I didn't know about it going on both images and website part. I was under the impression it was just the regular not both.

View Quoted Comment Thank you for the advise but he wants to photos completely gone off google. He wasn't to upset when I said I didn't know it would go on both parts on google. And I changed it so it's not visible on search engines but I'm not sure if the deed is done. Because even if our wedding is done I'd delete our website and I wouldn't want it on there anyways.

View Quoted Comment There are no two separate parts of Google! Images & search results are one of the same, it’s all part of Google search engine. What’s posted as public will go on both. What’s posted as private will not go on either, besides a link to your website that people will not be able to access, if they click on it.

Any picture you put up of yourself online can be found. I don't care how secure a website is nothing is 100% safe. Anyone can get an api (most are free) either legally or illegally and write a script to find pictures. That's why people say if you don't want it out on the internet, never upload it. When you use a social media account. You agree to a lot of this stuff under your terms of service. No one ever reads it. I can use Twitter's api to scrap their site to gather every tweet that a specific person created if I wanted to. And is 100% free and 100% legal.

View Quoted Comment He doesn't care if there on our wedding website or a website he cares if there's individual photos on google images directly.

View Quoted Comment Even if you delete your account the pictures won't be gone. There is no such thing as "deleted" when it comes to technology. It's still archived somewhere.

View Quoted Comment This right here. While I have posted pictures of myself a few times there's a reason I don't have a profile pic.

View Quoted Comment He doesn't care if it's on a website only Google Images directly.

View Quoted Comment I didn't know they weren't 2 seperate search engines. So that was my mistake.