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Tips For Image Optimization In SEO

Images are an essential part of making your website visually attractive for your visitors. But, search engines don’t understand the content of images on a web page. This is right even if the images have text in them. For instance, your logo might have words in it but the search engines cannot read these words because they’re not standard text. They are a picture. That's why Image Optimization becomes very significant...

Below are the few tips for image optimization.

• Put Emphasis on Quality as well as Originality of the Images.


• Image formatting: Image Cropping, Image Re-sizing and Image Slicing.


• Image file naming: Ensure the Image file name or IMG SRC string contains your prime keyword.


• Stay away from Usage of heavy images.


• Image Tagging.


• SRC attribute specifying the URL of the image.


• Width and Height is specified in pixels.


• Alt attribute that describes the content of the image-this is one of the most significant elements of image optimization.


• Title attribute that contains text to be displayed whenever the user hovers mouse over the image.


• Finish up with an XHTML image reference.


• Stay away from query strings for IMG SRCs.