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6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by NaijaTechGuy(m): 6:10am On Jan 02, 2017 |
Running an online business or a blog without knowing how to optimize your images is a huge step to failure. People simply love photos because they indirectly send a clear message but sometimes they can seriously slow down your website's load time. Here are some tips to help you optimize your images and enjoy great performance of your blog. 1. Always Use Alt Tags Alt tags are text alternatives to your images that are displayed in case a browser can't display them. If the image is properly displayed you can still see its alt tag when you hover your mouse pointer over it – and this small text is crucial to your SEO. Associating the right keywords with images will help your website to get better rankings. Make sure you always fill the alt tag of every single image on your blog. 2. Describe File Names Properly Have in mind that search engine crawlers look for relevant keywords not only in the text on your website, but also within your file names. That's why it's way better to name your images properly in plain English than settle for generic names. 3. Choose Your Quality When creating your pictures in a photo editor, you can always choose to save a file in different quality formats. The higher the quality, the heavier the image gets and the slower your page loads– saving the highest quality possible is not always the best thing to do. Large images used as backgrounds that don't really need high definition can be easily saved with an above-average quality that will be perfect to reduce file size and improve your blog's load time. 4. Use The Right File Types Generally, there are three basic image file types that are used commonly on the Internet – jpg, gif and png. Jpg is the standard web format since they're very easy to compress and retain good quality. Gifs have lower quality than jpgs and are usually used for icons or decorative images. Also , there is png, which is gaining popularity as an alternative to jpg, I think this is because they don’t degrade by re-saves like jpgs. PNG file sizes are sometimes still too large, but they're great for photos too. 5. Reduce File Size Of Your Images After choosing your file type, the next thing to do is to make sure you everything you can to reduce its size. Don't play with your website's load time, it's not a joking matter. More than 3 seconds of waiting for a page to load is enough for most of your visitors to abandon a page. If you can increase your pageload speed and considerably reduce the weight of your images, you'll be doing a lot of good to your blog. A good method I recommend is to choose 'Save for Web' in Adobe Photoshop – it will adjust the image to the lowest size acceptable for retaining its quality. If you don't use Photoshop, try free online tools like Pixlr, PicMonkey or GIMP. 6. Use Titles And Descriptions When you're uploading an image to your website, you can also add some information about the picture – its title and a short description. This will act as the meta information which search engines read about your images to make sense of your website. Using smart image texts will significantly help you to improve your SEO ranking. If you're using WordPress, go to your media library > select an image > enter title and description. Balance your image descriptions – use keywords relevant to your website. With this I think you should be able to optimize your blog images and get better SEO rankings. 4 Likes |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by NaijaTechGuy(m): 6:11am On Jan 02, 2017 |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by Kingstel(m): 6:12am On Jan 02, 2017 |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by NaijaTechGuy(m): 7:01am On Jan 02, 2017 |
Kingstel:Thanks 1 Like |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by GERRARAHIA: 4:43am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Very informative post Op.. |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by henryobinna(m): 4:59am On Jan 04, 2017 |
SEO is a complicated thing, sometimes you don't know what you're doing right or wrong |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by NaijaTechGuy(m): 6:55am On Jan 04, 2017 |
GERRARAHIA: |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by UNIZIK1stSon(m): 6:59am On Jan 04, 2017 |
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Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by D34lw4p(m): 7:11am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Na so!! |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by NaijaTechGuy(m): 7:13am On Jan 04, 2017 |
UNIZIK1stSon:.. Lol.. I no buy share o.. All the same Thanks |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by superior494(m): 7:30am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Nice one OP |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by whizbee(m): 7:36am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Nice write up, SEO all the way, these are actually the best practices |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by Benjom(m): 7:41am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Great as usual |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by DEWKID(m): 7:42am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Seo is best for Wordpress sites Nice post |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by Revolva(m): 7:48am On Jan 04, 2017 |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by ItzHoludex(m): 7:49am On Jan 04, 2017 |
good work |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by Nobody: 8:05am On Jan 04, 2017 |
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Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by biz9ja(m): 8:49am On Jan 04, 2017 |
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Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by omanifrank(m): 10:02am On Jan 04, 2017 |
nice one |
Re: 6 Ways To Optimize Your Blog Images For Better SEO Rankings by dolapoesho: 11:13am On Mar 06, 2017 |
Here’s how you can leverage the rankings boost image SEO can provide. https://wsiaxon.com/image-seo-6-must-steps-help-boost-rankings/ |
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