You have certainly thought much to your website to make user friendly as possible as you can. You write the high quality contents and blogs and with the support of relevant images in context to your information that lies on your WebPages.
But, do you know that, for which certain activities are you getting response from the search engines for the specific images?
The search engines certainly can see the images those lay on your page, but they are not able to know if the image keeps worth to the page. They do not even know if they should be providing your Website additional credit for the more work as you do to place the perfect image there with your content on the page.
If you looking to get this credit, you have to optimize those images for SEO. You have to make it aware to the search engines that the images lay on your Webpage are having additional value for your visitors.
There are some facts which help you to make it easy to do:
1. Start with the Save
Sometimes you don’t consider the name of image and just upload with the same name as you find over the Web for an example if you search an image of “Google Search” you just save in your computer as “abc.jpg”
But if you want to boost your image in terms of SEO; then you need to add the relevant keyword with description, you can save the image like “your_keyword_image_name”
2. Name the Alternate
You can add the alternate name in context your keyword through the use of “Alt text tag”.
3. Size Matters
The size of image also impacts, like if your images are oversize then they take more time to load the image and simply make slow your website while someone open your Website or jump from one page to another. You can simply check your Website speed through http://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/
4. Find the Format
Google suggest the following formats of image which help you to upload your images in best quality and effective appearance, (GIF, PNG, and JPG) avoid TIFF formats.
