Search Engines Like Pretty Pictures Too

[Shopping4Coupons]

The only thing is that search engines cannot "see" pictures so they have to rely on you naming them correctly and adding a good <alt> description to them also.

If you are saying to yourself now, darn I know your right but I have lots of pictures on my posts and I never bothered filling in a description when I added them. I added them just the way I found them., image1.jpg, dsco456.jps etc

Well I just discovered a fix for that problem, a Wordpress plugin that adds titles and alt image tags to all of your pictures on your Wordpress blog in one clean sweep. It looks at the title of your posts and grabs a description from that.

SEO Friendly Images Plugin


On a side note...
Here's a post of mine that makes good use of both the file name and alt image tags. These photos came to me in an email and they all had a generic name. I took the time to modify them all by hand and every day I get lots of targeted traffic from Google images because of it. The Logic Of Animals
Do a right mouse click, properties to see what I mean. Now if I would have had this plugin it would have made my job lots easier.

[sadiessay-so]

I don't use Wordpress, as I've mentioned several times, but I always name my images. For instance, on my most recent post on Skinny, the image of POM Wonderful was named POM-Wonderful-Pomegranate_bluberry.jpg. Sometimes I'll name something like a picture of, let's say when I was talking about the economy, I'd call it something like economy.stock market.market crash.jpg.

[Shopping4Coupons]

That's good that your already on the bandwagon with the names of your pictures and how they help with search engines, now we just have to get you on Wordpress!

PS. I do not see any alt tags for your pictures on your blog.

[sadiessay-so]

Originally Posted by Shopping4Coupons

now we just have to get you on Wordpress!

lol - good luck with that. I pay too much for Skinny to move it, and I love the app, anyway. For Say-So, I don't know... I guess I'm happy with Blogger. I'd have to really be convinced.

[Shopping4Coupons]

Yea I understand, the more you have into it the harder it is to change, I think we are were in your position once. I'm guessing the posts you have could easily import though.

[Arcticulates]

I don't have wordpress. I created my blog from scratch.. but I have just been learning about alt tags etc for images recently, and I must say I like it much better now. I can have people click on them and see a bigger better picture then the one on my site, and they are also starting to be indexed by google. Much better!

I have a lot of images on past posts that I have to go through and redo, but that takes way too much time, maybe later or a little at a time. But all my new images are done right! Yeah!

[Nathan]

I always use alt tags on my images. Not using them is a bad idea because you are missing out on a potential source of traffic.

[websynapse]

This is really useful, thanks for posting.

[sphilip]

Actually you have to use the alt, its the least possible thing you can do, after than it will be awesome if you can really name the pictures, will give an extra boost, but that will happen for the image search

[VoicesintheFan]

Wow this never occured to me, thanks for the tip!