SEO IMAGE OPTIMIZATION

Seo Image Optimization is also an important process in seo. If you have an image gallery in your website. Then you have to optimize those images in the search engines.

Crawlers(Spiders) cannot understand the Image and text which is printed in the Image.So seo image optimization technique to optimize them in the search engines. This is a simple technique to remember while inserting the image in the website.

We use image as background for styling purposes. And we use the image to show or explain the comcepts. Especially the photographers use the images to show their image galleries.

We don't optimize the Background Images since it is used only for the styling purpose. We optimize the images which is shown in the image gallery and the images used to explain the concepts. It depends on our requirement whether to optimize every image or not. We always choose on the necessity of the image whether to be optimized or not.

Remember Do SEO Image Optimization to those images which needs. If unnecessary images are also optimized We just loose the bandwith(incase if you use limited bandwith in you hosting).

How to do IMAGE OPTIMIZATION - SEO ?

This is simple technique to remember. We use "alt" attribute for the image which need to be optimized And if the image doesn't need the optimization we don't use the "alt" attribute for the image.

How to use the alt attribute ?

Below is an example for using the alt attribute


<img alt="example for image optimzation" src="image/sample-image.jpg" />



In the "alt" attribute use the keywords related to the webpage and related to the Image. Dont stuff all the keywords in the "alt" attribute thinking that it will be optimized for all the keywords. Otherwise the page will be considered as spam by the google. Use one to two keywords this will help in optimizing the image easily in the search engines.

File Format of Image in SEO Optimization:

We can use any type of Image in the web page. We can optimize any image in the webpage. It can be of any file format.

Supported File Format in HTML is:

S.NO:	IMAGE TYPE	IMAGE EXTENSION
1.	JPEG	.jpg
2.	GIF	.gif
3.	BITMAP	.bmp
4.	TIFF	.tiff
5.	PNG	.png