How to Optimize Images for Search Engine Ranking

Images are the graphical representation of any topic. In the web development images are mostly used in the articles. It is a natural truth that images can attract lot of traffic for any website or blogs. This type of traffic come from the image based search engines like Google images.If website developers want to get this type of traffic or want to increase more traffic, developer must need to optimize the images of website to get massive traffic. But everybody does not know how to optimize the images and how search engines redirect traffic to the websites.

Web Data Guide solve your this problem. Just follow the following steps to optimize the images. It is easier to do; once you do it then you can do it every time.

Alt Text for optimization

Alt Tag is an attribute tag for images use in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). This tag helps the spiders of search engines to know about the image topic. Actually a human when see an image he can judge that what is written on it but spiders of search engines cannot read the images, they know about the images through the Alt Tag. There for web developer must use Alt Tag with each image. This helps the search engines to index images in the website.

How to write image alt text?

This process is very simple. This is helpful for search engines to understand the images. Simply add Alt and Alt Text in all image tags. For example:
                                          alt="add alt text here"

Complete tag is following:
                      <img src="webdataguide.jpg" alt="SEO Tutorials" />

Image Size and website load time

Keep size of images as small as web developer can do. Load time of website must be less to get success in website SEO. If size of images are larger than it will take more time to load which is not good for search engines and website search engines optimization. Final word is that use less quantity and small size of images without sacrificing worth of lessons.

Image File Name and Search engines ranking

Before the uploading of images on website, select descriptive, related and desire image name for all images. This name will help to rank the image in search engines. Almost when users search for any images they type selective keywords for search. This is why developer uses keywords as name of images. Search engines will rank high your images with your keywords name.  

Image Caption

Although there is not any direct relation of image captions with the search engine ranking. However, it will help search engines to know about the image.