Website images play an important part in seo

April 16, 2008

Visual images are great not only for offline advertisement, but also for use in online advertisements. With the right images, that have relation to the content of the web page, you will be able to take your website to professional levels.

The reason for all this is that surfers generally visit and respond to a web page depending on the images found on the web page. Dense and text heavy images don’t receive much response from surfers; it is the photos of good quality with the right colors and text that receive more attention from surfers.

You can use the help of many picture libraries found on the internet for finding pictures that have the best effects when placed in your website. Just make sure that the size of the images is optimized correctly.

Use royalty free stock picture libraries for your pictures as they are usually free to register and use credit or monthly subscription system for using their photos. Prices for the images cost between $1 for web ready image and $50 for A4 sized print image to enhance your website and attract both spiders and surfers to the website.

Large images of 600 x 475 pixels should be between 20KB and 50KB while thumbnail images of 125 x 125 pixels should be between 5KB and 10KB in size. If you follow these tips while choosing images, you find that your page loads quickly. Do check all the images before placing on the websites as too large images slows the loading time of the image. This will only lead to visitors leaving your website for faster loading sties.

With the recent changes in Google’s algorithm, correct naming of the images placed in your website makes it easier for Google to find these images. This leads to an improvement in the overall search engine optimization of the website. While naming images, use keywords that are relative to the content of the page it is on.

So if your page is about Hyundai cars, use an image of a Hyundai car while hyphenating or underscoring the image names. This way search engines consider the image name to be separate words. Never abbreviate image names as they only become unrecognized by seo.

Though you may have long names with the full keyword name, your seo benefits are maximized here. If you have multiple pictures in a website, the names should differ by at least a single letter to prevent penalization for keyword loading. Search engine spiders take alt tags into account in seo; so place alt tags in each image with keywords that are related to the subject of the page.

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