Search engine optimization for images

As the saying goes, an image is worth a 1000 words, but this is not the case for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). While this is true to you and I when we are attempting to compare a list of very similar cameras, or reading a map, search engines are able to discern very little from most web site images. However, this article should help you to provide more to a search engine as it attempts to index the images, text, and other data from your web site.

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great summarize info. With proper image SEO, you can gain significant traffic from google images. +rep for you.

 

Or, you can watch the video that Google's Matt Cutts made regarding ranking images in image search!

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/matt-video-alt-attributes-for-images/

 

images on your site can help the rankings in your site if you optimize your images properly.

 

i think it can help to have traffic.. but BL? how?

 

thankz for your knowledge sharing.

 

great article! Thanx a lot!

 

Great Info thanks for Sharing..........

 

Images can rank in serp. Try posting all your images in flicker

 

You should read an entire thread before you post the same URL twice

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=8341260&postcount=3

 

make sure all images have alt tags and are properly optimized

 

If you use proper alt tag with all of your images then your images will get ranked in image search result, and you will get good traffic from image search results.

 

HI All,

Can anyone give me example of longdesc attribute that is mentioned in the URL of original thread ???