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Do you emphasize on your images when it comes to SEO?

by MustafaKamal
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I understand that being a perfectionist makes a lot of difference, especially when it comes to SEO.

At the same time, I'm starting to believe about the importance of alt attributes in HTML when it comes to images;thus, allowing search engines to crawl in.

Do you guys do this for your images in your websites as well? If so, do you think that it will assist in the process of getting raw traffic, for instance.
(Cause I'm guessing that it's not really much of a big deal if one wishes to get high value traffic)

Thoughts and views are welcomed.
#emphasize #images #seo
  • Profile picture of the author arschloch
    personally i make sure to tag the pages my images are on and name the images themselves with keywords. my tactics seem to be working so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author Groovystar
    I generally name my images with key words in them. I mean it can't hurt! Even if it doesn't help. And it's so easy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jordan Kovats
    I don't waste a minute on it. 90% of SEO is off site...10% is on site, and most of that has to do with the way Google reads your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author clickbump
      I optimize every image on my micro niche sites, both filesize and filename. Its too easy not to do this and I'll take every edge that I'm in control of.

      Save all non photos (graphics that are not taken with a camera) as gif images using Photoshop's "Save for Web" option and use the smallest color pallete that maintains color fidelity. For small icons especially, you can get away with much fewer colors. Always use 72 dpi at 100% of final file size (never resize the image in html, try to anticipate the final size and resize it in your paint or graphics program before uploading it to your site).

      For photos and faces, I use jpeg or png. I save jpeg files at no more than 75% fidelity as the human eye can't perceive any greater detail at most common screen resolutions.

      These things help to insure your site is as fast as possible. Along with clean xhtml and streamlined css code which is linked (not inline where possible).

      I also name my images for my keywords. For example, blue-yoga-mats.jpg with an alt tag of "blue yoga mats". This gives your site a better chance to show up in Google image searches and also helps provide vital keyword density and LSI.
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  • Profile picture of the author webdango
    I do use optimization on images as an opportunity to use my main keyword and often some varients.

    I name the imageusing keyword/varient with multiple owrds separated by hyphens, and I also alt with keywords too.

    Remeber, the alt tags intent is for it to be shown when the image is nat, so I stick to stuff that appears as thoug that's my intent: So an alt might be 'image of blue widget', or 'picture of man usng blue widget'. Basically, I do a short, 1 sentence description of the image using my keywords.

    Any opinion on title? I tend not to use that....
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