Posts Tagged ‘Image Optimization’

#1380: Image Optimization & Naming Files: Help Search Engines Help You

Posted: October 6, 2009 // Author: Jacob Stoops // 289 views // View Comments
Image Optimization & Naming Files: Help Search Engines Help You
How you name your images can be just as important as how you tag them.

Images present a very unique problem webcrawlers. A search engine webcrawler doesn’t have the ability to view and image on the web and inherently know what that image is depicting. In other words, unless we (the webmasters and SEO’s) help them out, they are blind as a bat!

“Help Me Help You”

Like the famous quote from the 1996 movie “Jerry Maguire“, search engines want you to Help Them Help You. There are many benefits to optimizing your site’s images, including inclusion into the image directories (which sometimes get injected into search results), and…

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