7 August 2008
How to get SEO Friendly Images
Posted by Duckeldannys Money Blog under: General; Net News; Wordpress; seo .
SEO Friendly Images is a Wordpress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.
ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.
TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.
Download
- Download: SEO Friendly Images v1.1 (ZIP, Mar 6th 2008)
Installation & Usage
- Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
- Use the Options page to modify ALT and TITLE options.
- You are done, SEO Image does everything else
SEO Friendly Images options recognize two tags %title (post title) and %name (filename of the picture). By combining these two tags and additional words (photo, picture etc..) you can create relevant alt and title tags automatically for all images.
There is one additional option called ‘Override default Wordpress alt’. If you uploaded pictures to your blog posts already and haven’t specified a description Wordpress would automatically add a default alt tag in form of image.jpg. Since SEO Friendly Images replaces only empty or non-existing alt tags, this would be left intact unless this option is turned on.
In my opinion this is a very useful plugin to get some extra traffic from Googles Image search engine.
9 Comments so far...
Tanner (is making money) Says:
9 August 2008 at 19:52.
A lot of people (even some SEOs) often overlook properly tagging their images, it’s actually a great way to get some additional traffic from Google images!
Airsoft Rifles Says:
17 August 2008 at 15:14.
I always put the ALT attribute on all of my images. Many people forget that you can optimize images as well as text, although the latter kind of content is usually more important.
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19 August 2008 at 07:38.
You can optimize images in different ways. Not only by ALT KEYS or TITLE. Whatever is done if you are not reducing the size of images you can’t optimize images.
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Many people forget that you can optimize images as well as text, although the latter kind of content is usually more important.
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13 September 2008 at 06:20.
I will definitely agree with you here “There is one additional option called ‘Override default Wordpress alt’. If you uploaded pictures to your blog posts already and haven’t specified a description Wordpress would automatically add a default alt tag in form of image.jpg.”
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Clarence Says:
21 September 2008 at 09:29.
hey, good stuff here, thanks for sharing this. if you have time check out my post on this topic as well. Making Your Blog SEO Friendly I have been talking about some regular update of quality content.
Mac from Motorcycle Fairings Says:
17 November 2008 at 16:41.
Wow, i hope is that simple as you describe it. Very helpful post. Thanks for the practical information you share here.
Home Decor Says:
6 Januar 2009 at 14:02.
I always consider Google Image search engine as a tool to get images but never as a tool to draw the attention to your blog. That’s cool!
