Improve your search results with Images

I am going to use two very famous lines for this post. (1) “Not a lot of people know that” as uttered by Michael Caine and (2) “you gona like this, not a lot! but you gona like this” as uttered by Paul Daniel’s in his magic show on the BBC.

Ok, here goes: “Not a lot people know that” they can improve their search results with images!  Not just any old image though, an SEO image that is relevant to the post. Once you have this in place you will be surprised at the results, like I said (I mean Michael said) “Not a lot of people know that” ;)

Now Paul Daniel’s words: You gona like it because am gona show you how its done, not a lot because it involve a little bit of coding. But hey if you can gain more visitors by a little extra work am sure you will agree that its well worth it won’t you?

1st all you need to understand how search engines look at an SEO image. Side note* A none optimised image is invisible to the search engines. To be visible to search engine (especially Google) an optimised image should contain the following 5 key elements:

    1. A “src” attribute; this is the part that specify the URL of the image.
    2. A “width” declaration; the part which specify the width of the image in pixels.
    3. A “height” declaration; this part specify the height of the image in pixels
    4. An “alt” attribute;  #1 element of image-oriented SEO – this describes the content of the image.
    5. A “title” attribute; the text that will be displayed when you hover the mouse over the image.

And here is how the code looks like once you’ve put it all together :) “You gona like this, not a lot!” :P

<img src=”http://yoursitename.com/image_name_here.jpg”
width=”width-here” height=”height-here”
alt=”Image-description-here” title=”Image-title-here” />

In the above code you will replace the content in the “” by the actual values/words for the image and.

So there you have it, an SEO friendly image on your site/blog that can improve your search results.

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