Making Images Friendlier to Search Engines

Watch those Images

Any text that is important to your site or that helps Search Engines position your site should never be placed inside an image. Search Engine spiders can’t read images. You may go DA! But I have seen this mistake made time and again. So to the Search Engines – Image with text is just a image.

Anytime you are dealing with text that is important to the positioning of your Web page, don’t use images – make it plan ole text and nothing but text.

Empower Those Images

You can make the image friendlier to Search Engines. Do the following:

1. Use Search Engine friendly file names. Name the file with a name that will help describe the image in relation to your Web page. Make sure you have no spaces in your image name. Use a dash in place if a space. Like succefful_mastery_logo.png.

2. Make sure the Image tag has text in the alt attribute that describe the image in relation to your Web page. Like “Successful Mastery logo | Learn Adobe Dreamweaver” on the Adobe Dreamweaver Training page.

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