Pictures SEO - Learn the Secrets Behind Ranking SEO findable Images!

SEO on the images to rank well is essential to ensure you grab the researchers website stray. You can have a picture album of photos, company logo or product that you want to get found in Google images. But how do you make Google ranking in the category images, over the millions of other junk results? Lets begin to increase your exposure online and start making visits to web sites for images.

1. Optimize

Make sure that the images are Google friendly and in both, JPEG, GIF or PNG. You must ensure that these images load faster, and put them in a program like Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks to compress the quality. You can add JPEG images up to about 80% quality, and still see no visible signs of compression process (not for the human eye anyway!) And I cut the file size in half.

The file size is important with images SEO, Google loves fast loading content, so make sure that images load quickly using the procedure described above.

If still slow to load after compressing the quality, check your hosting provider, and if you have lots of pictures (as in thousands) consider allocating more bandwidth to the image server to ensure that they receive for the user Final ... Quick!

2. Names

Names, Tags, Keywords ... What ever you call them, are very important to get your website ranking in search engines. Be sure to conduct proper keyword research to ensure the image has a chance of ranking well in the big G.

Once the image is ready for the web, be sure to call it this way: "keyword-image.jpg" or "keywords images.jpg" according to the picture. People who use Google put 'image' the word at the end of the search phrase - then its logical to put it in the file name!

Now you have a well optimized, file format, easy to use ready to go on the web, you need to put in place on your server. Its not good to load the root, or the folder called 'ay of Mypics inside another folder called' fun stuff ', it needs to be in a folder called ... wait for it ... 'Images'. Create the folder, and then upload your picture in it.

When you are ready to insert the image on your website, always provide an alternative text (ALT text that is in short) that contains the keyword and describes the image in the HTML, remember to put in the 'image' the The word ALT tags to link it all together .......