Keyword phrases for image names?

radar9628 · 04-03-2011, 02:44 PM

I do a service for clients and upload online biz directories info for them. Lots of sites allow media (e.g. pics, video). Is there value in naming the images with the related keyword phrases for their industry? On those kind of sites, I would think it wouldn't make a difference - vs. their own website. What do you think?

Thanks,
Radar

laurenswuyts · 04-03-2011, 02:45 PM

You should relate the image to the keyword.

radar9628 · 04-13-2011, 01:51 PM

Thanks for your reply Lauren!

josephl · 04-13-2011, 03:02 PM

i would as images are not readable by search engines. And also you get to optimize your images for the keywords you use. Thats my humble opinion!

CraigRC · 04-13-2011, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by josephl

i would as images are not readable by search engines. And also you get to optimize your images for the keywords you use. Thats my humble opinion!

Absolutely, we always do this for SEO clients as it's often overlooked.

Same goes for the ALT description, get your main keyword (or an LSI version of the main keyword) in there every time.

So for a generic keyword for say dating, it will appear like this in the code:

img src="../get-your-ex-back-now.jpg" alt="Get Your Ex Back Now"

The keyword is obviously "get your ex back now" and you've placed it twice within the same image, both in re-naming the image to be the keyword (using dashes is fine, search engines see them as spaces) and then using that same keyword in the ALT description.

yukon · 04-13-2011, 03:37 PM

Another trick with posting images on external sites.

Host the image on the clients site/hosting (hotlink) If possible, it will help rank that image in Google images (image backlink).

So say you have 10 external site that you post an image on, make all the external pages hotlink a single image & that one image will get all the credit.

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