Your Search Engine Optimisation Expert - Sheldon Nesdale » SEO Optimisation of Images http://www.searchengineguide.co.nz Need to Optimise Your New Zealand Website For Search Engines? Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:56:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Do You Name Your Website Images With Keywords to Improve Your Rank in Google and the SEO of Your Website? http://www.searchengineguide.co.nz/2009/08/do-you-name-your-website-images-with-keywords-to-improve-your-rank-in-google-and-the-seo-of-your-website/ http://www.searchengineguide.co.nz/2009/08/do-you-name-your-website-images-with-keywords-to-improve-your-rank-in-google-and-the-seo-of-your-website/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 05:45:54 +0000 Sheldon Nesdale http://www.searchengineguide.co.nz/?p=184

Most people don’t bother putting some thought into naming the images they upload to their websites.

That is precisely why you should.

By default, images have got automatically generated names like “img001.jpg” or “1234567.jpg”.

And most web developers will name your template images with names such as “header.jpg” and “footer.jpg”, rather than take the opportunity to insert some keywords such as “search-engine-optimisation-header.jpg” and “search-engine-optimisation-footer.jpg”.

If you take care to name your images with meaningful names, you will be improving the Search Engine Friendliness of your website.

Pimped out bus

Pimped out bus

For example, search Google Images for “pimped out bus“.  My copy of this image is #1 on this planet, just because I named the image “pimped-out-bus.jpg”.

(And that’s without specifying a “title” or “alt” tag, or writing a caption)

It’s that easy.

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