Hi all, I've just published a new post on my blog discussing the benefits of image optimisation and some directions to get images to rank well in Google Image Search Click here: How to Optimise Images and Dominate in Google Image Search As always I'd be keen to hear your thoughts...just drop a comment on the blog page or on this thread. Hope it's useful to some of you! Cheers Mike
Not a bad write up. Nice job. I would also add that larger images tend to do well, not super large ones, but ones larger than a typical thumbnail. Another more advanced technique is to check the exif data to make sure there is no copyright info or anything that could tip off the search engines that it is a copied image. If you have access to the exif data, it is also another location where you can add some descriptive text, particularly if you want to specify the location of the image. Many digital cameras will add gps coordinates by default in this data. You do not want to keyword stuff in there though.