Importance Of Image Optimization In Your Blogs For SEO

| November 21, 2009 | Comments (9)

Its been only lately people started to realize the importance of image optimization and in fact still there is a vast majority of people who still don’t know the power it holds, although some SEO professionals argue that image optimization only brings hits that are really useless in majority of the cases, but still images brings in people for you and it brings in a chance that people will visit your blog though majority of the people will go for stealing your pictures yet you get a chance where people might also visit your pages and read your articles. Good on-site optimized blogs need quality link building service to help increase SERP ranking and page rank.

Lets just do a search in Google how optimizing your images might help you in a great way to get hits to your site. For this let me use the term “Superman” and search for it in Google and we will check the results.

superman google

As you can the very first result Google brings in for this term is images of superman and why does Google brings in images for this term? Normally you won’t find images being displayed for long tail keywords but rather you will the images for single words like superman. spiderman etc.. reason is Google made a study what do people look for when they type in certain phrases like superman and other terms and they found that when people do a search for a definite term like superman or spiderman or whatever it is majority of the people who search these terms looked for pictures of it and they return results for pictures in the first result. So there is a chance that if you optimize the images you use in your blogs properly there is a chance that your images might come in the list of pictures at the top and also in the first page of Google image search there by people will visit your blog.
we will see how we can optimize images for your blog in the next article.

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  • http://secretcontents.com Vic

    I agree, we should not ignore optimizing our images. In my blog, I usually use original images. That is why I invest some time to also optimize the image attached to my post. If we spend time on writing contents, we should do it in our images.

    • http://seoyourblog.com Chakkravarthi

      There is always a mixed opinion about image optimization, it all depends on the kind of site you hold in my opinion. Entertainment sites can fairly benefit well from SEOing their images.

  • http://lsgeekster.blogspot.com/ Best SEO and SMO

    Hi there Chakkra,

    I believe you have just posted here the most effective and easy to do SEO. Image optimization is so easy when you follow the right naming with the right keywords stuffs. With my personal blog, I have found out through Google analytics that most of my traffic came from Image search.

    I really agree with you saying “Lets just do a search in Google how optimizing your images might help you in a great way to get hits to your site.” That’s really the thing I always consider in my best SEO strategy.

    @vic: you’re definitely right in investing to have images in each content we post in our blog.

    Thank you guys. Great job here.

  • http://useme4info.com abhilash

    you are right friend, google image is a great source of traffic of any site if you give you time on image optimization. you point is very good
    thanks for share

  • http://www.philippinesoutsourcingcorp.com Phil @ Philippines Outsourcing

    There are some keywords where images ranks first. There were times, too, that most of my visitors where from the clicking on the images.

  • w3-logics

    Optimizing an image is very useful for bloggers, especially those who write themes about fashion, travel, photography, beauty and wellness and everything that relates to the most popular hobbies of people.

  • readymadewebsiteforsale

    Generally, it is not advisable to add too many images in a website, but when images are absolutely necessary, there arises the need for image optimization and of course the author has shared some good points related to image optimization.

  • websitedesigningsingapore

    Finding the right kind of image is incredibly important. Great images can add another dimension to an article or page that can encourage people to share the page and create some great backlinks.

  • webdesignersmalaysia

    All the tips are very useful.If you want your image SEO ranking high then you nust go for the tips which are beautifully explained in this post.
    Great post..!!