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With the growing popularity of websites & apps like\u00a0 Pinterest, Instagram, Google Plus, Snapchat, Twitter and Kik, images & videos can generate loads of search engine traffic back to your website.<\/p>\n
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Although Google is working on “image recognition” &\u00a0“auto – caption,” currently, search engine spiders cannot recognize “the subject matter of an picture.” \u00a0Instead, they rely on the “Alt Text.” \u00a0Therefore web dersigners\u00a0help Google understand each of your images by placing a \u00a0text description within the alt text of each picture.<\/p>\n
Use your keyword phrase<\/a> in one or two instances of “ALT text” on the page. Google recommends using less than 10-15 words to describe the image.<\/p>\n People are not going to wait long\u00a0 before they leave\u00a0a website that is loading pics slowly. Therefore, increase your webpage load time\u00a0by\u00a0making your image\u00a0file sizes as small as possible yet view-able on desktops & mobile devices.<\/p>\n Study’s have shown that internet\u00a0users expect a site to load in under two seconds &\u00a0consumers are willing to visit a competitor’s website instead of dealing with a slow loading webpage.<\/p>\n Use Adobe Photoshop, \u00a0Gimp, PicMonkey, Pixlr, FotoFlexer\u00a0or any other\u00a0Image Optimizer<\/a> to adjust photo sizes. \u00a0 [A large, quality picture should be around 70kb and a picture image at around 20 – 30kb].<\/p>\n Before you upload your images\u00a0to a website page, pick a descriptive & keyword targeted<\/a> file name – \u00a0it will boost your Google Image<\/strong> Search<\/strong> Engine rankings. \u00a0High ranking photos nearly always have the keyword you searched for in their file name.<\/p>\n If you want to see SEO Image Optimizing in action, just click here<\/a>\u00a0and view the top ten Google Images for the keyword term ‘African American Yoga Teacher’ [notice the website name “ynottony.com”\u00a0].<\/p>\n Although there seems to be\u00a0no direct relation between image captions & Google search engine rankings,; Captions are the most well-read pieces of content on your website, Image Captions can\u00a0lower your\u00a0bounce rate.<\/p>\n How to choose the right image format?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Choose\u00a0the\u00a0file type \u00a0that keeps your\u00a0image detail & image colors while reducing it’s\u00a0size & increasing it’s\u00a0load time .<\/p>\n JPEG<\/strong> Images<\/strong> [Joint Photographic Group]\u00a0are \u00a0the\u00a0standard image file choice of the Worldwide Internet. \u00a0JPG was originally designed for the storage of images.They are able to be compressed considerably, which results in quality images with small file sizes<\/p>\n GIF<\/strong>\u00a0Images<\/strong>\u00a0[Graphics Interface Format] are of lower quality \u00a0than JPEGs. It is ideal for images with maximum of 256 colors. The GIF image file is\u00a0used for more simple images such as icons, avatars, \u00a0ads, cartoons and animated\u00a0images.<\/p>\n PNG Images\u00a0 [<\/strong>The Portable Network Graphics Format] \u00a0<\/strong>preserves all the image detail\u00a0&\u00a0colors [making it\u00a0the\u00a0“higher quality” choice]. The size reduction is less than\u00a0GIF or JPG. \u00a0PNG files will not\u00a0degrade over time with re-saves like JPEGs and they support the use of a transparent background. \u00a0However because of it’s robustness, file sizes can be 3 times larger than JPEG.<\/p>\n The pound sign turns any word or phrase that follows into a searchable web link. This allows internet users\u00a0 to collect content and track discussion topics based on hash tagged words\u00a0 – in “real time.”<\/p>\n Therefore, on platforms , discussion groups and forums , it is advised to include hashtags – allowing web users to find your content or services.<\/p>\n [ad#ynot]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the growing popularity of websites & apps like\u00a0 Pinterest, Instagram, Google Plus, Snapchat, Twitter and Kik, images & videos can generate loads of search engine traffic back to your website. Q:\u00a0 HOW DO I GET MY IMAGES TO RANK IN THE GOOGLE SEARCH? Alt Text Although Google is working on “image recognition” &\u00a0“auto… Continue reading SEO | Optimize Images & Media for Search Engine Rankings<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2897,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","without-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\tFile Size<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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