Hello Readers, Unziptech has always been sharing useful
articles for Blogging and SEO tips. This post will make you learn how to
increase your blog traffic by optimizing your Blog images. Images are very
important for our Blog posts. We add images to our blog post to make people
better understand about our posts and if you optimize your images before
uploading them you can boost/increase your blog traffic to a great extend. We
always focus on the blog content for SEO but images plays equally important role
in SEO.
Many users search for images on the web using search engines
like Google. Google image search is the most used image search tools around. If
you have optimized your images then they will appear in the search results and
you will be gifted organic traffic whenever someone views or downloads your
images. You can also build a loyal audience with this. Now that you know the
importance of optimizing your blog images, we shall take a look at the process.
How to optimize blog images:
Before explaining the whole process let us see the HTML
image tag which is used to insert an image into your blog.
The above written code is the HTML image tag. I have only
mentioned 3 attributes of this tag that we are going to focus on. The 'src'
tells the image source, 'alt' displays an alternative text and 'title' shows
text whenever someone hover on your images. In the optimization process we will
be taking care of all these attributes. Now let us see how you can optimize
your blog images:
Image Name:
Whenever you download an image to add on to your blog or in
to your blog post, you should consider renaming it. Sometimes when you download
any image it is named randomly, which is not a good SEO practice. Use a short
name that explains about the image. Don't use special characters in the image
name. Try to put a keyword in the image name. Like i write for smartphones and
tablets, i name my images with the name of the devices, so that they can appear
in the search results if someone searches for that device on the Search
engines. Image name is a part of the 'src' attribute and has a great
importance.
ALT attribute:
Now comes the 'alt' attribute of the image tag. Alt displays
an alternative text behind the image and normally you see it when your image
source doesn't work. But it is very important in terms of SEO optimization. If
i write alt="SEO tips" in the image tag, it will tell the search
engine robots that this image is about SEO tips. I guess now you get the
importance of ALT attribute.
Title:
Image title is a text line which is displayed whenever
someone hover mouse pointer on the image. Title should be illustrative and
short, so that a user can get the idea behind the post.
New Blogger interface has made things very easy. You can
insert these really important attributes without worrying about editing the
code. You need to follow these simple steps:
1) Log in to your Blogger Account and create a new post.
2) Upload an image to your blog post and click on it (Rename it before uploading). It will show options like this:
2) Upload an image to your blog post and click on it (Rename it before uploading). It will show options like this:
3) Now click on the properties encircled in the above image
with red color.
4) It will pop up a window like this:
4) It will pop up a window like this:
5) Now add the image alt tag and title tag directly into it.
6) Click on ok and your are done.
6) Click on ok and your are done.
I have covered all the steps and explanations in this
article about optimizing blog images. Hope you will remember this whenever you
upload a new image to your blog. If you have any questions or problems you can
comment here, I will be glad to help you.
You should also check other SEO and Blogging tips on Unziptech. They will surely improve your blogging experience.
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