How to Optimize Images for Better Search Engine Rankings

This very important to include images in every blog post because it not only make your posts attractive, but also help to get traffic for your blog. In these days, many internet users are searching through images. If you correctly optimize your blog's images, then much chance to get traffic to the blog. In this post I want share with you some tips to make your blog's images more search engine friendly.

How to Optimize Images for Better Search Engine Rankings

Accommodation

The accommodation certainly does not influence the search engine position, but it would increase the blog's loading speed, thus upload your own images in your blog and don't use the other image, by using the other images will have more bandwidth, so it is advisable for those who use Blogger, upload your images to Picasa.
This is also important to ensure your images always available, if you have used the other images instead your own images, then the author could remove the picture and you'll never get it.

Size / Weight images

When we talk about SEO images size does matter. A very large image in both dimensions and weight will be more time-consuming to load than an image lighter, and as we know, the blog loading time is essential for positioning. Therefore ensures that your images are not too large in size, not too big on weight. The most recommended formats are JPG and PNG.
There are many programs for your computer and online tools which help you to reduce weight and size of images.

Use keyword in the image name

Make sure the name of your image has a target keyword, so that you avoid using nonsense words, numbers and other special characters. The only name that identifies the image perfectly.
Examples:

DC98100.jpg

Orchid.jpg

Names without spaces and special characters

Names without spaces and special characters
If your image name is composed of more than one word use dashes instead of spaces, also avoid using accents or other special characters, because when uploading images these characters are make encoded.
Examples

Orchid% EDdeas% 20purple color.jpg

Orchids-purple-color .jpg

What happened to the first example is that the file was called purple orchids, i.e. containing an accent and a space, but getting on the network is assigned a URL which codified those characters. Therefore, if the name carries a space using a script in place and prevents accents and other special characters in names.

Name Length

The name of your images should be short and descriptive as possible, so you have to avoid using a long file name.
Examples:

the-orchid-purple-to-more-me-like-forever-and-ever.jpg

Orchids-purple-color .jpg

Use of ALT

Google also recommends to alt attributes in your coding along with related images. ALT (or alternate text) is the text displayed when a browser cannot show an image, this text should be your target keyword, but avoid the use of too many keywords with an ALT attribute

<Img src = 'Orchid.jpg' alt = 'purple orchids, flowers, plants, garden, flower arrangements, purple flowers, flowers to give' />

<Img src = 'Orchid.jpg' alt = 'Purple orchids' />

Using TITLE

The TITLE attribute in turn is the complement of the above, it can use a short description, again without abusing the length and number of keywords.
Examples:

<Img src = 'Orchid.jpg' title = 'purple orchids, flowers, plants, garden, flower arrangements, purple flowers, flowers to give' />

<Img src = 'Orchid.jpg' title = 'Purple orchids' />

This attribute is what makes the tooltip appear when you put the mouse cursor over an image.
Combining the ALT and TITLE would look like.

<Img src = 'Orchid.jpg' alt = 'Purple orchids' title = 'Garden with purple orchids' />

Keywords close-up image

Sometimes that also helps to get position in search engines by using your target keywords near the image.
Example:

Orchids (Orchidaceae scientific name) are a family of monocotyledonous plants which are distinguished by the complexity of their flowers and their ecological interactions with

pollinators and fungi with mycorrhizal.

With the above example, I mean, do not put the image and nothing else, always accompany it with a text that is closely related to an image.
In short, upload your images to your own accommodation; optimize the image weight and size, avoid large size images, descriptive name without spaces or special characters; use the TITLE and ALT attribute; expandable folders and close to where you have a text containing keywords related to the image.With all these tips we will have better opportunities to get top position in search engines and your images will appear in the image search results.