Greenguy's Board - Search Engine Optimization for Image Search

When you make a friendly sites for search engines, you think to optimize the images. Tags like and <meta> you remember the first time, by optimizing the images for SEO you and can benefit for a larger number of visitors, those can become clients.<br /> Here are some issues that you need to know when you optimize the images:<br /> <br /> <b>Filename</b><br /> If the picture has a proper name, it is more likely to be classified correctly by search engines, especially for search engines with functions such as images Google Images. A name like "notebook_apple.jpg" says much more than "10.jpg".<br /> <br /> <b>The size and quality</b><br /> Because the size and quality are two important factors is difficult to choose where to make compromises. The lower image is a faster loading (small size), but at the same time with the smaller image you don't have the chances to get a better position in search results and especially to keep visitors that avoid to see a picture with poor quality.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, images with good quality are going exactly the opposite. They will have a better position in search results, but this will increase the necessary time for the image to load.<br /> <br /> The middle way between these two situations, and the most recommended, is to have the thumbnail displayed in the first page and when the thumb is clicked will open the image with big quality.<br /> In this way, the page load faster for the user and if he want to take a look "more close" to the image can do that by a simple click.<br /> Sites with good optimization can make the difference in large collections.<br /> <br /> <b>The alternative text (alt).</b><br /> This should not be ignored for any picture from your page. The best alternative text is a brief description of the image. "Alt" helps search engines to "see" what the image contains comparing the alt text with the rest of the content, this helps you to a better positioning in search results.<br /> <br /> A short and correct HTML tag for the image looks like this: <img src="notebook-apple.gif" alt="Notebook Apple" /><br /> <br /> <b>The text near the image</b><br /> It is very important that the text around or near the image to express the image content. This follows from the "Google Images FAQ, which says:<br /> <br /> "Google analyzes the text on the page adjacent to the image, the image caption and dozens of other factors to determine the image content. Google also uses sophisticated algorithms to remove duplicates and ensure that the highest quality images are presented first in your results. "<br /> <br /> <b>Less text in images</b><br /> There are situations when you need to put text in the picture coz on the web you can't use many fonts, but it is often preferable to put around the picture that text, as much possible. One reason for this is that the text has the highest value for search engines. When you are searching for something on Google, the only way you can express the therms for search is by text... you write a text there in the google.com or yahoo.com search box... so if search engines don't know how to read text from images i mean visual or how hear our verbal queries, in order to have good results we need to adapt to their strategy.<br /> It is best to do the images only with graphics, without text, the text it will be used (with the CSS) as background. Over the background, the text positions (all with CSS).</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">tickler</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-01-23 11:41 AM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div>Which may all become redundant when Google finishes this.|whisper|<br /> <a href="http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/showthread.php?t=50891" target="_blank">http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=50891</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">Beaver Bob</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-01-28 10:47 PM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div>I have to say I never had much luck converting traffic from google images.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">Maj. Stress</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-01-28 11:46 PM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; "> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div> <table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="alt2"> <hr /> <div> Originally Posted by <strong>Beaver Bob</strong> (Post 438737) </div> <div style="font-style:italic">I have to say I never had much luck converting traffic from google images.</div> <hr /> </td> </tr> </table> </div>Couple years ago I could convert toons at around 1:1,500 from image traffic. The rest of it I tried to push to join for free type sites with halfway decent results. Nothing you will get rich off of for sure. Just some extra pocket money.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">raven1083</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-02-01 08:03 PM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div>google images is a nice way of deriving traffic but conversion is really low.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">Beaver Bob</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-02-05 03:27 PM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div>Does anyone think that using a simple javascript to break out of the google image search frame would cause your site to be penalized by google? <br /> <br /> I have some blogs that get a shitload of images traffic and my ratios on it are pitiful. My best performing blogs get almost no images traffic.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">tickler</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-02-06 12:49 AM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; "> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div> <table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="alt2"> <hr /> <div> Originally Posted by <strong>Beaver Bob</strong> (Post 439755) </div> <div style="font-style:italic">Does anyone think that using a simple javascript to break out of the google image search frame would cause your site to be penalized by google?</div> <hr /> </td> </tr> </table> </div>I would be more inclined to htaccess for Googles "click here for full size image" and redirect it to the blog.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">Maj. Stress</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-02-06 04:17 AM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; "> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div> <table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="alt2"> <hr /> <div> Originally Posted by <strong>Beaver Bob</strong> (Post 439755) </div> <div style="font-style:italic">Does anyone think that using a simple javascript to break out of the google image search frame would cause your site to be penalized by google? <br /> <br /> I have some blogs that get a shitload of images traffic and my ratios on it are pitiful. My best performing blogs get almost no images traffic.</div> <hr /> </td> </tr> </table> </div>Is it a wordpress blog? There is an plug in that can fix that. <a href="http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/break-out-of-frames-wordpress-plugin/" target="_blank">http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/br...dpress-plugin/</a><br /> <br /> :)</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /><table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="page"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="bottom"> <td style="font-size:14pt">Beaver Bob</td> <td class="smallfont" align="right">2009-02-06 05:08 AM</td> </tr> </table> <hr /> <div><div style="margin:20px; margin-top:5px; "> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom:2px">Quote:</div> <table cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr> <td class="alt2"> <hr /> <div> Originally Posted by <strong>Maj. Stress</strong> (Post 439856) </div> <div style="font-style:italic">Is it a wordpress blog? There is an plug in that can fix that. <a href="http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/break-out-of-frames-wordpress-plugin/" target="_blank">http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/05/br...dpress-plugin/</a><br /> <br /> :)</div> <hr /> </td> </tr> </table> </div>Yup, thanks :) I actually just used a very simple javascript and it works great. Do you think using the plugin instead would make a google penalty less likely? <br /> <br /> I'm trying it on two blogs where I get the most google image traffic.</div> </td> </tr> </table> <br /> <br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%"> <tr valign="top"> <td class="smallfont">All times are GMT -4. The time now is <span class="time">02:51 AM</span>.</td> <td align="right"> <div class="smallfont"></div> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="smallfont" align="center"> Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.1<br />Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. <br /> © Greenguy Marketing Inc </p> </body> </html>