How To Optimize Images To Increase Rankings!!!!

James Anderson · 03-19-2007, 05:53 PM

If pictures are worth a thousand words to people, then they are worth zero to search engines. Simply put, search engines will not recognize images effectively that are not optimized, and if they are not optimized you might be loosing out on two things.If pictures are worth a thousand words to people, then they are worth zero to search engines. Simply put, search engines will not recognize images effectively that are not optimized, and if they are not optimized you might be loosing out on two things. One, screen readers that use text or speech browser might not be able to surf your website, and providing them without information might cause them to leave once they arrive. Keeping visitors on your website is always an important part of getting your message across. Two, identifying images with your keywords will help rank your image and thus your website higher in the search engines. Using keywords that are relevant and pertain to the image increases the instances of keywords on that page. The most common mistake in optimizing images is not identifying what they are. Without identification, or an attribute to assign a title, an image is just a blank image, comparable to all the rest on your website. Now, how can you identify your images for the search engines' Using the alt and title tag in an image link is easy to do, but very often ignored.

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Ross · 03-20-2007, 02:31 PM

You can actually optimize images through using good keywords in your images' Alt Text.

sufi · 03-20-2007, 03:37 PM

Ross, Thats what I was going to post. The alternate text is great way to optimize the images. An image can't tell anything to a search engine robot but an alternate text can do it easily.

sar420 · 03-21-2007, 05:24 PM

Can yo give an example of the html to be used to insert alt text with an image?

Harry · 03-22-2007, 03:49 PM

Here you go sar420!

I hope this helps you in optimizing your images.

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inworx · 03-25-2007, 12:19 PM

I dint knew about it before...Anyways Thanks fo the info James

DomainRealty · 04-02-2007, 07:19 PM

Its all about the alt text and title attribute, as Harry pointed out.

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Gracia · 04-13-2007, 09:53 AM

If pictures are worth a thousand words to people, then they are worth zero to search engines. It is all about alt and title tag attribute.

littlephoenix · 04-23-2007, 10:24 AM

well, now days google and yahoo have images section, so you really dont have to use alt tags ( but it will help for regular search results ) but as for images, they will show up in google images without the tag

Vhaeos · 04-26-2007, 04:47 AM

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Originally Posted by littlephoenix

well, now days google and yahoo have images section, so you really dont have to use alt tags ( but it will help for regular search results ) but as for images, they will show up in google images without the tag

I'd think that using the alt tags would help you rank for keywords in the image results. Although I can't be for sure.

Anyone wanting to learn a bit more about this, here are a few posts that may help you out;
Optimizing image search traffic ? Blind Ape Search Engine Optimization
Blue Hat Search Engine Optimization-Advanced SEO Tactics ? Check Mate: Google Images

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