Comments on: 10 Things You Can Do To Optimize for Image Search

By: Toronto SEO

Toronto SEO — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:43:02 +0000

Excellent checklist, I thought I had all my angles covered and then I read your post… Thank you for your insight!

By: Kristof

Kristof — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:38:32 +0000

Good tips – with exception #2 and #6.

#2 Keyword stuffing in image alt tags is a huge no-no.
The purpose of an alt tag is to provide a text description of the image in case the image isn’t displayed (broken link or text readers). So here’s the real rule: If adding a keyword to define the image is appropriate, then include it. Otherwise don’t.

#6 Heading Tags
Unless the image caption is defining a section within the post, you should never use heading tags for image descriptions (or for wrapping around the image). Heading tags are meant to define sections and hierarchy of an article – and search engines know this. Using them arbitrarily to help boost SEO is counterproductive. You might see an initial boost, but the final outcome will be one step forward, two steps back.

Also, for those wondering why you should not use underscores in image naming: Underscores are stop characters. Search engines (specifically Google) won’t read any words past the first underscore.

By: wrought iron furniture

wrought iron furniture — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:33:05 +0000

Thanks, I can really use this for my site!

By: Rod Claar

Rod Claar — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:37:12 +0000

Thanks! Great article. If you have a moment, I have a question. website.grader.com says I have too many images on my site.

http://EffectiveAgileDev.com

IMHO you can’t have too many. What do you think?

By: MMO Treasury

MMO Treasury — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:22:12 +0000

Nice to see some great seo tips that arent just for the search enigines but will make any website more complete and professional looking overall. Thanks!

By: Kre8iveminds

Kre8iveminds — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:26:40 +0000

Well explained article. This is something which is going to help us. Thanks for the great tips.

By: Raven Matt

Raven Matt — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:35:41 +0000

9. Enhanced image search is no longer included in Webmaster Tools. http://kl.am/kSh

By: indiauto.in

indiauto.in — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:37:18 +0000

thnx!! something different to learn!!

By: Charles Hill

Charles Hill — Mon, 18 May 2009 01:24:26 +0000

Saptarshi, thanks for the tips, and great website by the way. You have lots of good info here for online marketing. Fantastic Job!

By: michaelj72

michaelj72 — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:25:08 +0000

very useful, Saptarshi, thanks for the article and also answering questions in the comments section – i’ve learned here and will now apply some of this