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What should my blog image be named?

by deanmoney
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For example lets say I write a blog about acne but I am trying to rank for the long tail "best back acne treatments" but my title is "6 best acne treatments that work overnight". The question is should my image be called "best-back-acne-treatments.jpg" or by what the title is called which would be "6-best-acne-treatments-that-work-overnight.jpg" What is the preferred strategy? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheZafraGroup
    You should put "best acne treatments" as your img title and alt title. You should always put your keywords in your image title and alt title. That helps with your on page SEO.
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    • Profile picture of the author deanmoney
      Originally Posted by TheZafraGroup View Post

      You should put "best acne treatments" as your img title and alt title. You should always put your keywords in your image title and alt title. That helps with your on page SEO.
      Thanks for the help. So stick to the keyword I am trying to rank for and not my title for ALT and TITLE? Should my filename also just be my long tail keyword? Example: "best back acne treatments"?
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    • Profile picture of the author yukon
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      Originally Posted by TheZafraGroup View Post

      You should put "best acne treatments" as your img title and alt title. You should always put your keywords in your image title and alt title. That helps with your on page SEO.


      There's no alt title, it's alt (text), there's a difference, alt-text shows up on the text version of a Google cache, title attributes don't show anywhere.

      Adding a title attribute to an image is useless for image SEO & easy to test/prove.

      Relying on only alt-text or file names is weak as far as image SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tony Marriott
    Originally Posted by deanmoney View Post

    For example lets say I write a blog about acne but I am trying to rank for the long tail "best back acne treatments" but my title is "6 best acne treatments that work overnight". The question is should my image be called "best-back-acne-treatments.jpg" or by what the title is called which would be "6-best-acne-treatments-that-work-overnight.jpg" What is the preferred strategy? Thanks.
    Actually the correct answer is. The image file name and alt tag should describe the actual image. They are there to tell the search engines what is in the image as they cannot see them. Or to display if the image is unavailable for example.

    Presumably the image is related to the page content. So describing it will also help with SEO.

    You certainly do not need to hammer home repetitive keyword/phrases on a page to rank for that keyword. In fact it may be detrimental

    If you are targeting a specific keyword/phrase then logically that should be in the Title. If you put a different title on the page then that is likely to give most weight to that keyword.

    Of course you can rank for more than one keyword on a page but it makes sense to have one primary keyword.

    Then use a variation of semantically related keywords in the content. Google's better understanding of content these days means you need to have more natural content on a page. But of course it still needs to be structured so taht Google knows what is the most part part of that page.
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