SEO for google image search

by Lon on May 20, 2009

Good basic stuff on optimizing google image search results

Optimizing Your Site for Google Image Search

Image optimization is one of those things that falls under the “best
practices” heading for Webmasters of all shapes, sizes, and knowledge
levels. Simply put, if you are truly running your site the right way, then image optimization is a de facto benefit.

What, then, is the proper way to construct an image reference in XHTML, and what aspects of this help in Google’s image search?

Every standards-compliant, Google-sensitive image reference should contain 5 key items:

  1. A src attribute specifying the URL of the image
  2. A width declaration in which the width of the image is specified in pixels
  3. A height declaration in which the height of the image is specified in pixels
  4. An alt attribute that describes the content of the image—this is the #1 element of image-oriented SEO
  5. A title attribute that contains text to be displayed when the user hovers his/her mouse over the image

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