Last night I was talking to my mother about the importance of things on a site being created so that the information provided can be easily read and found when someone is searching for the topic on the internet. We often focus on the content which is important, however, sometimes the whole photo aspect of a site is neglected.
Not only is it important to use interesting and relevant photos, but it is also important to identify the photos for the search engine spiders.
Spiders?!
No, not that kind of spider!
A Web crawler is a computer program that browses the World Wide Web as a means of providing up-to-date data. These web crawlers are also called: ants, automatic indexers, bots, Web scutters, Web robots, or Web spiders.
To make photos easily identifiable to web spiders, it is necessary to name the image. After you name the image, the “name” will also appear when someone hovers over it.
Without going through a long explanation on the “alt” and “title” terms (also known as tags), let me say that it is wise to use both tags so that your image identifier can be read by all search engine spiders. These tags are meant to be used as an alternative text if the image is not available. Also make sure you use the same image identifier for both the “alt” and the “title” tags. In the end, the names that you use for the images add to the searchability of your site.
So this how it is done…
Curious about the photo identified in the example above? If so, just click right here.
Last week we learned about magically opening links.. Do you remember the message?
As always, attached is the weekly Linky to enter either the main URL to your site or add each post you publish throughout the week.
Until next week’s wooing post, enjoy your blog, and let the spiders crawl all over your photos!
Sincerely Your Spider Trainer,
Never thought I'd like spiders so much!
Other than the fact that I feel like spiders are crawling all over me now(!), thanks for the tip!
Wow, this is a good post and I am going to try this. Thanks.
Spiders got eight legs, one for every day of the week. Weave webs made of silly string, catch insects like swamp gators.
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Great post! I knew images were supposed to help you get picked up on Google, but I didn't know how.
Oh, that spider gave me the crawlies but I completely agree with your post on the power of pictures and video in blogging.
I use them a lot on my WordPress blog and have, to my surprise, gone looking for a picture on Google Images and finding mine as a choice.
There are some other issues around them that I can't explain but overall a good practice.
Best,
Eliz
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Thanks for all the tips. I'm going to try a couple of them out right now.
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ICK! Now Im all itchy/scratchy! But feeling smarter already!
your mother still does not get it
Well, you don’t have to worry about it Mom because you don’t write a blog! LOL 😛