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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

How To Optimize Images In Blogger For Better Search Engine Ranking?

Search Engine Image OptimizationImage optimization is very important in ranking your blog/site. It's very strange but true that if you optimize your images properly you will get 20% to 30% of blog traffic in bonus. To  gain this traffic you must know what is image optimization and how to do it?It's very simple and easy way. You need not more than seconds to properly optimize your image. There are some important things that you must know while doing image optimization.
Let's see how to do image optimization and things that you know while doing image optimization.

Give Image File a Name
Search Engine Image OptimizationMention Image file name. When you create some image file that give it relevant name with respect to your topic. Currently google don't have capability to recognize what is going on image. You must need to rename it from untitled to relevant topic name.
Showing below the google results for "stretching vertical navigation menu" search :

Add ALT Attribute To Your Images

Google spider searches for alt text mention on any image. It basically describes what is going on that image. When some one searches on Google Images it automatically display relevant images with the help of alt text mention on that image. If you don't mention alt text on your image it may be disappear from Google search results and you will get nothing from that image. So proper alt attributes significantly improve your traffic.


Focus on Image File Size
 Large images results increase in page load time and visitors dissatisfaction. This will result in decrement of your page rank and traffic. You must properly optimize image so that file size must not exceed from limits or image may not get blurred due to very low size. Keep the image file size to minimum and quality of image must not be disturbed. 
Write captions below each image

There is no such importance for writing captions but for making your blog data and images user friendly you must mention captions. It will decrease your bounce rate.
What is bounce rate?
Number of user limited to only one page view.



Add Relevant Image In Your Post

Image related to your post result in better visitor response, decrease your bounce rate and you will receive traffic from Google Images. Famous saying about relevant image:
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A picture is worth a thousand words"An image can describe so many things that you are unable to teach your audience.
Visit these pages you will find informative things.
Optimize your image to increase your search engine ranking. Follow these steps and keep them in minds. I hope this article will help you in understanding image optimization. Have a Nice Day.

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