How to optimize your images for Google

Category: Marketing | Posted date: 2020-03-27 07:24:21 | Updated date: 2020-03-27 07:31:01 | Posted by: Jesza

Search Engine Optimization doesn't stop at your textual content. Google has paved the way to indexing all the media on your website and trying to make sure that your site and therefore the content on it can be found by anyone who could also be trying to f



Search Engine Optimization doesn't stop at your textual content. Google has paved the way to indexing all the media on your website and trying to make sure that your site and therefore the content on it can be found by anyone who could also be trying to find topics related to your content. This is often a good thing, well if you would like people to see your website.

Google recently published a list of tips to better allow your images to be found by the search engine. I find the following pointers informative as they show us exactly what information Google is using to label our images and determine once they would come up in searches. Any crumbs of data from how the program works may be a treasure for us SEO junkies find great ways to urge your content out there.

Here are a few tips from their list:

  1. Make sure that your image filename is  descriptive and keyword rich
  2. Make sure that the alt tag for your image is descriptive and keyword rich
  3. Make sure your website and images are crawlable and not blocked by robot.txt
  4. Make sure your images are in one of the following formats:
    • bmp
    • jpg
    • png
    • gif
    • webp
    • svg
  5. Make sure that the text near your image is descriptive of the image keywords

Hopefully these nuggets allow you and your search engine optimizer to better present your images to google!