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Image SEO

by ninon
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Hey everyone,

can anybody tell, how images are read by search engines?
#image #seo
  • Profile picture of the author Ohioquotes
    I always wondered that myself but was too afraid to ask.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Williamson
    SE's read the alt text to determine what the image is, thus you always want your keyword phrase in the alt text.
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  • Profile picture of the author MrPolarZero
    through their alt image tags, I guess so
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    • Profile picture of the author parbat
      Google bot cant read the thing in the image. It index image just by its name or with relevant text nearer to image..

      if you search for any image in google images you will found most of the first result index images with image title. so choose image title accordingly

      regards
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  • Profile picture of the author tessa
    Originally Posted by ninon View Post

    Hey everyone,

    can anybody tell, how images are read by search engines?
    Search Engines would read the image with it's alt text. So you want to provide the exact caption of the image as the alt text.

    For image optimization you can provide your keywords as the alt text.
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    • Profile picture of the author nimmysnv
      Google crawlers unable to read images and that is why when we do on page SEO of any site having the images then it is better to put alt tag so that the it will read.
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      • Profile picture of the author Aki Fagno
        Originally Posted by nimmysnv View Post

        Google crawlers unable to read images and that is why when we do on page SEO of any site having the images then it is better to put alt tag so that the it will read.
        Thumbs up. Well said. I completely agree.
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        • Profile picture of the author Mike244
          Yes, We should add alt tag attribute while we put any image in our website.
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  • Profile picture of the author savita241
    Originally Posted by ninon View Post

    Hey everyone,

    can anybody tell, how images are read by search engines?


    I think with alt image tags...and its very beneficial for seo..do it...
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  • Profile picture of the author tcindia123
    use alt tag to optimize images of your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author Christina10
      Hey, really, very good question.. First of all, I never knew that images are counted as well in SEO.. After that how are they cached, on what basis..?? Can somebody explain it in simple terms??
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      • Profile picture of the author ninon
        Thank you guys!
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  • Profile picture of the author BenJackson
    I wouldn't abuse the alt text - try to include your keyword AND describe the pic. You can put your keyword in the title of your image and more importantly (imho) in the file name. Do an image search right now, I guarantee you that the top image(s) have their keyword in the file name.

    This is how I rank my images - title, alt text, and file name. Usually the keywords I am using aren't generally searched for with an image search so the competition is low and I grab the #1 position and the little scraps of traffic that come with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Digitel
    Image optimization is playing a big rule in search engine portion, you can see for many keywords that some images are index on the first page of search engines, but sites are not available so image optimization can give you lots of organic traffics.
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  • Profile picture of the author intesols
    No search engines not able to read images but you can optimize images with few technqies.
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    • Profile picture of the author ninon
      ok, so i'm on a right way
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  • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
    • Keywords in alt text, text around the image, image name, page title;
    • Preferred image formatting – jpg;
    • Separate SE accessible image folder;
    • Image freshness.
    • Enabled image search option at Google webmaster tool.
    • Reasonable image file size
    • Limited number of images per page;
    • Popular and reliable photo sharing hosting
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  • Profile picture of the author rockerbelly
    I am using alt details for my images. I am novish in this field so after uploading the picture I search ALT on HTML coding and than put the relevant words at there.
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