Comments on: SEO: Google Image Search

By: Jara (Local Design)

Jara (Local Design) — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:53:15 +0000

That’s why Google is the #1 Search engine. We need to understand this better. Valuable Information. Thank you!

By: pralki

pralki — Wed, 26 May 2010 18:27:13 +0000

Very good primer on the subject and should help many businesses better understand SEO. I will be recommending it.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:43:13 +0000

Keywords in your alt tags are good except in the instances where the keyword does not reflect the images chosen of course. But yes google image search is definitely a great tool to driving up traffic to your site.

By: london web

london web — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:04:14 +0000

I’m pleased you have brought this up. Some of our clients are benefiting greatly from keyword rich images on Google image searches and it is exactly like you said, the visitors do return!

Images and keyword relevancy go hand-in-hand with SEO and it is a great little nugget of gold to further optimise your site with.

Nice post!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:22:31 +0000

@Peter, I would suggest your alt convention is perfect, I would also suggest that as the photo should support the content and that the alt tags should describe the photo that the alt tags should naturally contain keywords.

I’m still not sure if alt tags in images do increase SEO.

By: PeterW

PeterW — Wed, 20 May 2009 09:01:31 +0000

I have question as for naming conventions – many SEO experts claim alt tags are supposed to contain keywords – but most of images on our site is decribed rather by informative description of an image than KW. Would you try to adjust decriptions so that they contacin KWs?

By: marcus

marcus — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:52:50 +0000

I guess it se till going to be a bigger search engine since many are using the google api like http://www.unlimages.com

By: Evan Skuthorpe

Evan Skuthorpe — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:28:58 +0000

Alt tag your images and name the files in English with hyphens rather then underscores to seperate words and search engines will love you for it. Simple.

By: Design Jar

Design Jar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:31:43 +0000

Ever since I started doing web design a few years ago Ive always included alt tags and its not just a seo issue its basic accessibility too.

By: Internet Marketing ABC

Internet Marketing ABC — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 06:23:23 +0000

Great post – I also wrote on the subject and shared some additional tips here http://internetmarketingabc.com/?p=206