Some people always overlook on the importance of optimizing their blog images to get traffic. Do you ever notice that most surfers would rather go for google image search rather than doing a simple web search itself? Image search is much more fun and exciting and if you are a budding blogger hoping to achieve good traffic to your site, then you should consider optimizing your blog images to advantage of it.

There are basically many ways to optimize your blog so that the images will be pick up by search engine bots. We shall discuss one of the best-used methods being practiced by bloggers.

First of all, to achieve your goal, just make sure to fully utilize alt text code by inserting important keywords into it. Just take an example of the code here. For instance, it should look something like this < img src=”yourfilename.gif” alt=”your keywords here”>

If you are not sure, which keywords to use, just run a search using goodkeywords.com or use google keyword tools to find out. That way, all your images will then be based upon the keywords that you have selected.

After you have done that, what you can do to further optimize your images is by using the same keywords, which you have placed in alt text and copy to your blog title and meta tags. That way, this will link the relevancy of the keywords and therefore making your blogs more attractive to the google bots. If you want to create a link to images, you can also consider making the keywords as your anchor text.

Another less important consideration which you can also do is by ensuring that your images are properly enhanced using photoshop editing. Make sure that the images does not appear blurry and the size should not be too big. Although it may sound like petty issues, do take note of the importance if you intend to fully optimize your blog.

So, you might be asking how can you be sure that you have done it correctly? It’s simple. Well, what you can do is to place an Adsense unit on the pages where your images are located and then find out what type of ads that appear. If the ads are relevant, most probably you have done your homework correctly and this means your site is fully optimized based on your chosen keywords. Of course next thing to do is to sit back and relax and monitor the traffic flowing in.

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