Do you want more traffic for your website from Search Engines? then optimize webpage images or pictures with 'ALT' tag. Image optimization is one of the important thing in overall website SEO (Search engine optimization) for local search rankings.

Image Optimization for SEO

7 Image Optimization Tips & Tricks For Your Picture Website

Image Optimization

Optimization of your images can be in a top position on search results pages, making it easier for current and potential customers to find your website easily from search engines for better traffic rankings. If you want original organic search from search-engines via image search to your website, then you should optimize webpage by the basic image optimization.
In this article provides some basic ideas to improve pictures visibility from search engines to improve your webpage traffic rankings.

1. Image File Name
Words in your image file-name are more important for helping search engines determine relevancy. For example, If the file name was originally named in “DC-221217.jpg”. This doesn’t add much information about the image on the entire web page. It should be renamed to “Flying-bird.jpg”.

2. Image Quality
Quality of your picture is the primary goal of visitors. If the picture is pretty then the user will click the pictures on search engine’s image search or else user will skip the particular page. So your website should contain quality images with less memory.

3. The Alt Text and the Image Title
The Alt-text is used when the pictures cannot be displayed in the web page. Alt-tag should provide alternative information about the image. Ie., something that can be displayed when the picture itself is not shown. Image-title should provide additional information on the picture.
Example:
<img alt="Your Image Alt Text" src="source link"/>
<img alt="Green Color Apple" src="http://www.yourdomain.com/folder-name/Green-Color-Apple.jpg"/>


4. The Image height and width
Adding height and width is important for faster loading. When you define the height and width of an image, browser can continue loading the rest of the page. This is essential for speed when you have images on a webpage. So your website pages must contain low resolution image with good quality.

5. Image Format
There are many image formats available for use. Always use universal image format of jpg images. You can also use PNG files for high quality web-images, but when you use PNG files it will gets more file size when you add more colors.
  • Use .JPG for the larger full-color images, and
  • .PNG for the other images.

6. Optimize the Image for Fast Loading
To ensure webpages load fast, optimize all the pictures you upload to your blog or elsewhere in the web. Optimizing images for web means making the file as smaller, so the entire page will be load faster.

7. Image Sharing Websites
Best way to spread your pictures in web, Upload and share it in best image sharing websites like Facebook, twitter, Flicker and more.. Because of this method you can get some back links from these websites for fast indexing from the search bots. Also your webpage get some traffic too.. 
I hope now you can get some knowledge for how to optimize your images in webpage for better search engine rankings here.

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