Monday, January 2, 2017

Website Image names do make a difference

Are website image names important for SEO Rankings?
The answer is a resounding yes.
Image names that use relevant search phrases are important for Indexing by Google and improving SE Rankings for a website, as one of the ways of boosting Rankings.
Image names that use the typical names coming in from the camera (like: IMG123456.jpg) are one of the frequently ignored and lost opportunities for SEO Rankings.
As an example, a better name for a website looking to rank for Athletic Socks would be something like:
  • athletic-socks-mens-white.jpg
  • athleticsocksmenswhite.jpg
with the former being simply more readable than the latter.
Make sure the image name is relevant to the search phrase being used and enhance it by adding further details to the right of the name, while using the search phrase as far left as reasonable, since the Google Spider considers words on the left more significant than further right.

No comments:

Post a Comment