Image Search Optimization

Aug 31st 2006 View Comments




I’ve been looking into optimizing images for the various image search engines and I’ve found 4 major points to address:

  1. Keywords in file images
  2. Keywords in ALT tags
  3. Keywords in caption text below image
  4. Image size

It seems at least Google’s image search uses image dimension to identify duplicate images, so if you’re working with an image other sites also use, it would be helpful to modify the image size by a few pixles, so as to not get filtered out as duplicate.

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  • http://stickers.stickernation.com Srini Kumar

    wow ! typing my keyword into image search opened my eyes a bit. that is fascinating, i discovered competitors i have never even heard of ! i wonder what it would take to get my logo ranked very high on such keywords…