SEO Tip: Propely name your Images
Friday, March 5th, 2010Sometimes in SEO, it pays off to be proactive and foreword thinking, not purely reactionary. It pays to be the leader, not the follower. How does this relate to naming images? Well as of right now, the consensus is that naming you images accordingly doesn’t have a significant, if any, increase in SEO results… but it could in the future.
Why do we say this? Well why not? Google indexes text/ data, as well as images to make them relevant. Whats to stop them from combining them in the future? Not only that, but properly naming you images will help you in organization.
So how do you properly name an image? Good question and as of right now, there is not “perfect” answer but the same holds true as with all things, make it relevant. If your image is of a golf putter you are selling, whay have it named “putt0234img.jpg” when it could be named “golf-putter-01.jpg”? Clearly its obvious what the last image is, and if its this obvious to you, why wouldnt it be to the search engines?
Be proactive, think outside the box. Even if 1 of 4 things you try works, that’s 1 thing more than your competitor.