Using Images To Get Visitors To Your Websites From Search Engines

Using Images To Get Visitors To Your Websites From Search Engines

Written on November 25, 2008 – 1:00 pm | by rajays |

As you may already know, you can search for images on the major search engines. Search Engines such as Yahoo, Google and MSN searches websites for images and indexes these images and displays them on their image search results.

To understand what I am referring to, you need to go to www.google.com. On that page you will find a link called “Images” on the top left hand corner. Click on that link and make a search on any topic and you will get image results corresponding to your search term. The images displayed are the result of Google having indexed these images from millions of websites.

If you click on any of the image, you will taken to the page where that image is originally displayed on. So you have just visited that page via an image search from a search engine.

Using image searches is an easy and effective way to get visitors to your websites. Some sites get several hundred visitors weekly through image searches. You too can start getting web traffic to your sites via image searches by following the simple tips listed below.

Firstly, you should save your images using your keyword as the file name. Using file names such as pic001.jpg or pic002.gif to name your images just isn’t smart. Use correct/actual keywords to name your images. If your image is of a lightbulb, then you should name your image lightbulb.gif or light-bulb.jpg. Any name that describe the image will suffice.
Use “alt text” to describe the images on your site. The alt text (also called alt tag or alternate text), helps the search engine know what your image is about and helps them to correctly index the image.

Here is an example of correctly naming and tagging your image file. Let’s say you have an image of a dark grey Prada herringbone suit. I would name that image file something like prada-dark-grey-herringbone-suit.jpg. So I have added/described the image in my file name. I then upload this image to my website at this location: http://onlinemarketinghub.com/images/prada-dark-grey-herringbone-suit.jpg

Next I need to add an alternate text to the image when I add the image to my web page. I want to use “Prada Herringbone Suit - Dark Grey” as my text to describe the image.

I use the following code to add the image to my page : <img src=”http://onlinemarketinghub.com/images/prada-dark-grey-herringbone-suit.jpg” alt=”Prada Herringbone Suit - Dark Grey” />

Prada Herringbone Suit - Dark Grey

The above picture has been inserted using the code shown above. The image has been properly named and tagged to make it easier for the search engine to index it. The next time the search engine bots come over to this blog to re-index it, they will also index the image.

The above method is very easy and fast to implement. You should be doing this for all the images on your sites and blogs. Hopefully, you too can start getting visitors via image searches on search engines.

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