SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

Lynne Level 1

July 22, 2016, 9:09 am

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What all counts for SEO when it comes to images?

Does the image size play a role and how do I know what the optimal image size is?

All I do is put my keywords into my alt description and I name the image as my keyword too... is there anything else important that I am leaving out?

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Cristian

I never used anything more than the main keyword in the alt tag and a secondary keyword as an image file name. I also haven't heard of EXIF data. Really have to learn more about this subject.

10 years ago

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Lynne

Yes me too, share what you come up with please! This is not something I was aware of and if it makes a difference than I want to know!

10 years ago

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TommyCarey

Well it looks like IdealMike went over pretty much all of it SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

I'll try to hit on a few of his points though.

The size of an image will help with page load times. And we all know that a quicker website is a website gaining more love from the search engines, right SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

Increasing the speed of your website is always a good thing, not just for the search engines, but because people never want to get to a page and wait even 10 seconds for it to load. People have become extremely impatient when it comes to load times, so the quicker the better SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

The alt tags are great to use, but you do need to name your images properly in order to obtain the full benefits for image SEO. If you have all your images names something like image2139480284.jpg then you are not using image optimization to it's full potential. Get a keyword in there so that you can boost up in the Google images search as well SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

So do something like my-keyword-here.jpg so that you can get an additional keyword in there for your rankings.

A lot of people overlook image optimization because it's not going to bring in a huge amount of traffic, usually. Well it doesn't bring in direct traffic, but it help overall SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

By doing basic image optimization you can increase your rankings slightly. Imagine if you were stuck at #3 in the search results and all you had to do was optimize your images to boost up to #2 or #1, would you do it? YUP! SEO for images - what is needed besides alt tags?

10 years ago

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Lynne

Hey Razzy well the way I see it is that SEO is like a huge puzzle and image optimization is one little piece. Plus doing things like renaming an image or adding alt tags really only takes a few seconds doesn't it? So if it helps, even if it is not a huge amount, why not just take the time to do it!

10 years ago

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ajlancer

Hi Lynne thanks for your question. I think smellier this discussion posted on CD. And really image alt tag really importance for Google or search engine. Search engine never know what this image until use any tag on image. So, it is very importance for image indexer on search engine and as well working good for SEO. Beside, image tags, you can use image tile and description too. And as per as I know image size does not matter for SEO affect. But, for speed up of your website, big size image can hamper for proper loading of website or content. So, if website need time to loading or specific content need to loading too much more time, visitors may go away. So, small size of image much better for keep speed up site loading.

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10 years ago

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Lynne

Thanks Ajlancer, ok that makes sense that the image size itself doesn't affect SEO but it could slow down your website and in that way affect SEO.

10 years ago

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vinaya

Most of the time I use my own images. When I am using my images, I remove the image properties, use a keyword as the image name and add keywords as the image title, subject, and comments in the image description field. When I upload the image on their website, I give it a proper description that is usually a long tail search term. When I am using it with my content, I also add a caption that contains keywords and keyphrase.

9 years ago

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Corzhens

I didn’t know that you can optimize the image that is on the web page for purposes of SEO. This is interesting to me because now I can optimize the image itself by tapering the resolution and size aside from tagging it with the proper keywords. In this case it seems that the keyword will be the main tool in getting a good ranking in the search engine search list.

8 years ago

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vinaya

Image needs to be optimized. Some of the benefits of image optimization is your website will appear when image for a certain keyword is searched online. If the keywords matched the keywords used on your image, it will appear on the search list and the searcher might visit your website.
Another benefit is fast loading of the website. Image optimization also means resizing the image, removing unnecessary attributes and adding alt attributes. This will make your site load faster.

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