Comments on: Formatting images for SEO

By: aloy

aloy — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:05:48 +0000

Hi You used hyphen(-) to name darren-rowse.jpg instead of _(underscore). Is it a best thing to name the image files

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:40:06 +0000

Thanks for this post! I am a food blogger so I use photos in every single post and I am just starting to learn about SEO – never knew the photo titles were important! I think I know how I am spending my long weekend ;-)

By: Regalos

Regalos — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:09:34 +0000

Thanks! I was wondering about this.. wasn’t sure if i needed to tuse the “title” tag or the “alt” tag… good post:)

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:54:27 +0000

Thanks for this article on using image tags. It is exactly what I needed. Very useful to me, as my product review site uses lots of pictures.

By: Amit Patekar

Amit Patekar — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:38:37 +0000

Hi,
Darren,
I think putting the keywords in image file name is excellent idea.
It might help to certain extent, but what if we are using css for image. I am huge fan of DIV and css and most of the image i put on my site using css background property.
Will your technique be helpful in this case also.
Regards
Amit Patekar
visit http://www.webworldguru.com for tutorial on PHP, Joomla, MySQL, CSS

By: SEOAdsenseThemes

SEOAdsenseThemes — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:36:55 +0000

I wrote a plugin to crop images to be used as thumbnails in WordPress entries. I’ve received quite a number of requests for auto generating ALT and TITLE attribute that contains the entered keywords in the tag. Its in the works for the next plugin upgrade.

By: Affinity Images Dog Photography

Affinity Images Dog Photography — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:39:15 +0000

There is another side to this and it is the approach that your viewers should always take priority over SEO. This is not to say that you should not concentrate on SEO, but when doing SEO always think about the end user. In my opinion this is simple because this is the way Google looks at it. They are always striving to provide the best search results to their users after all this is how they make Billions of dollars!
To clarify this point in relation to images just think that the alt tags are designed for visually impaired web users. You can get software which will read the alt tags out so that the user knows what the image is without seeing it. So in the example used by Baz above, Use your keywords in the alt attribute but also use it to describe the picture to the user. For example. “paddling technique used to paddle a kayak”. This is totally natural and will not be interpreted by Google to be spam. You have also used a variation of paddling in the sentence.

Hope this makes sense.

Mick

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By: Baz

Baz — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:41:57 +0000

I get the need to add alt tags to describe what a picture is about but should you rename the actual picture name as well i.e

rather than DC0006.jpg then your alt text alt=” padlling a kayak”

should i use

kayak-paddling.jpg then alt=”paddling a kayak”

is that right? or should the image name be exactly the same as the alt text? or do search engines etc not bother about what you name the actual pic?

cheers

Baz

By: printers cleveland

printers cleveland — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:23:37 +0000

I think people need to bare in mind that ‘alt’ is used to screen readers as well. It is only knowledge but rather than stuff keywords into your alt tags, you should explain what the photo/image is, after all that is what the tags for?

By: AMiRU

AMiRU — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:56:26 +0000

So, keywords for images is also vital in SEO. Thanks for the tips, another good post from a great blogger.

By: Rob O.

Rob O. — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:42:20 +0000

So, I understand that the ALT (alternate text) attribute serves as a textual placeholder for the image for browsers that either don’t support images (some mobile browsing platforms, for example) or have the image display option disabled (to speed up page loads, for example).

And I know that the TITLE attribute serves as an image caption or tooltip (visible on mouseover) for your image. (I’ve read that browsers with accessibility features enabled can also verbally “speak” this info for those who are visually-impared.)

So, my question is, does including the TITLE in your image code accomplish anything with regard to SEO? Certainly, I believe it has merit for the sake of giving your users a bit more info about the image – so I’ve made a habit of always adding this extra bit to my image code – but does it also give Google, MSN, & Yahoo! more to chew on or is that attribute simply ignored by search engines?

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:09:51 +0000

Thanks for the tips man :)

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By: Trond

Trond — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:37:55 +0000

Use your-best-product.gif and ALT tag’s on all images.
This will give google some extra breadcrumbs.. And makes you a better pagestrength..

By: NutritionOcular

NutritionOcular — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 03:12:01 +0000

I have heard of naming your images with keywords as well. Using alt tags is a good idea, thanks.

By: indobloger

indobloger — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:18:57 +0000

This is new knowledge for me. thanks for the tips. next time i’ll try to write it in my own language.

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