Don’t name this “image1″. Use your words – your keywords, that is! Images in your website should be appropriately named and tagged. Many webmasters are careless when it comes to this important task, which shows how careless people are regarding website design basics. Ignoring the potential of images for SEO fails to tap the an [...]
SEO Recap – Image Naming
June 8th, 2010Link Baiting 101 – the Secret to Live Bait
April 28th, 2010Link baiting has acquired a bad name in some circles because of blatant abuse of the technique and the general distrust of the public, but link bait can actually become a positive way to increase links and traffic to your website or blog. First you have to know who your audience is. If you have [...]
Best Image Sites
September 30th, 2009While the best way to get photos for your website is to simply take them yourself, eliminating any copyright issues, sometimes you need images that you just can’t supply yourself. Fortunately, there are dozens of places online you can find good photos at – they just aren’t always on the front pages of the SERPs. [...]
Image Search and Priorities
April 12th, 2009Many websites use images – how and when and where and why you use them can make all the difference in your site’s SEO. How high a priority is SEOing your images? It should be fairly high on your to-do list, as images can be very valuable places to get some keywords in and get [...]
Visual is IN – Linking From Images
April 5th, 2009Someone said, “A picture is worth a thousand words”. I’m not sure videos was around then but you can extrapolate, right? Many webmasters still don’t take into account just how valuable a resource teaser photos or videos can be. They can generate links to your sites which are much more likely to be picked up [...]
Image Content – Just a Reminder!
July 8th, 2008With all the excitement over the ‘new technology’ that is supposed to help Google index Flash sites, we need to remember that Google STILL CAN”T READ IMAGES. Their ability to crawl all the available text has jumped, but we still need to optimize our visual aids for the search engines – perhaps more aggressively than [...]













