photo seo
Outside of conventional onsite and offsite SEO many developers and marketers fail to realize the importance of search engine optimization for photos Gaining traffic and business from image optimization helps tremendously especially given the small amount of work involved When optimizing images for search engines the most important thing is the name of the image itself Most photos are simply labeled DSC jpg or something along those lines The goal is to very briefly summarize the image in the name Let s say an image pictures a boy building a sandcastle at the beach As an internet marketer I would label the image boy-build-sandcastle-beach jpg When combined with on-site content that s relevant to a boy building a sandcastle at the beach the image will rank very high in photo search engines such as Google Images Secondly the size of the image itself should be addressed Large uncompressed photos will hog bandwidth and are not SEO-friendly Trimming down the size of photos while maintaining original quality is key The last thing you want is pixelated ugly photos This is a big turnoff Be sure to decrease image size optimize photos without compromising quality Photoshop and many other editing programs can


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