Optimization for Google Images - Surrounding Text!

Just wrote an article called It's all about the image where I share my experiences in image optimization.
From what I have seen, surrounding text is what counts the most when it comes to ranking for keyphrases in Google images.

 

Umm .. nice article thanks for sharing

 

Very nice, thanks for sharing.

 

That is cool, thanks for the info. We're just starting to reap some benefits (in terms of pageviews) from Google Images, and anything to help with this is greatly aprpeciated.

 

I was looking for the same topic and found at the right time.
Thanks.

 

I'm pretty sure someone wrote an article claiming the same thing a week ago.

 

Very informative, I never realized that before.

 

Please explain your post.

 

Actually, in my experience the image name (I know it sounds too easy to be true) carries a lot of weight as well.

Here are my findings in 2 articles:
blindapeseo.com/articles/optimizing-image-search-traffic
blindapeseo.com/seo/targeting-image-search-traffic

Sorry for that, but the system won't let me post links yet.

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Tnx man good article, but I need to wait month or a two to see the results

 

Yes, but compared to the results for top keywords in the regular results, image results don't seem to have a sandbox.

 

Very nice & useful article, thanks for sharing, hope to see more in future.

 

My pleasure