It can get rather
boring when you browse a website full of quality content and all you
see are walls of text. You may consider spicing things up with a
number of descriptive images. However, if you want to push up the
site’s rankings, much legwork will be needed in tweaking the pics
you upload, and that’s where your SEO specialist comes in.
Naming
Search engines
spiders can probe through every line of website code for allowed
elements that will help boost its ranking, right down to the filename
of the picture. Change the filename of each picture you upload from
the stock name generated when the picture was taken to a more
descriptive name. For example: an image of airplanes leaving
contrails may warrant tagging as airplane-contrails.jpg from
IMG0001.jpg.
Size
Some SEO experts
point out that loading times matter in rankings– and images are
among the worst culprits in bringing them down. That in mind, you
should avoid uploading hi-resolution images. It’s better to adjust
the image in an editing program to an acceptable size then upload the
file. Do not have the browser resize the image either.
Alt Tags
Based on the above
sample, consider inserting alt texts into the HTML code for each
image by putting it in the format <img src="
airplane-contrails.jpg" alt="Airplane contrails"/>.
The tags allow the spiders to properly mark the image for accounting
in the rankings.
Fixing the images
for SEO will work well in lifting your entry towards the higher
perches.
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