556,536
I name the images describing what they are for the viewers who unable to see and are using an audio reader to navigate the site. The search engines can recognize images so if you name them for seo and not what they are, you can expect the search engines to treat you like the spammer you are.
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Ryan Huggins - Thousan...
Thousand Oaks, CA
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
5,257,583
I typically do title them for SEO and yes, alt-name them as well. I don't always search in images for mine when checking SEO but, often seem them when I'm not!
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
3,416,038
Funny or not so funny story is i never knew it mattered until reading an Active rain post a couple of years back. Now i label all my pictures and even need to go back to some old ones and name them too,
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,583,328
I get the photos from the agents and they're ready to go!!! I don't edit... but I should tag!!!! ugh
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
2,246,135
Roy Kelley You have the corner on the nations flower photos, wire them to beam the emails, calls, attention to your local beehive. Folks don't just search the web for sites and blogs but images, videos, maps, through new channel feeds and if images give a ticket to ride the Net best, use that angle that you shoot and post so so well!
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,071,489
1,157,791
It is always a good idea to help out the search engines.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
6,423,260
2,684,769
Alt tags are so important... but just about everyone ignores them.
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
1,506,773
I name them ADDRESS - SEQUENCE # - ROOM For example on my new listing: 2560 Rikkard - 01 - FRONT or 2560 Rikkard - 20 - Pool
My SEO tool will take the name and make it the alt tag.
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
150,466
Yes, I work the SEO and tags for everything that I do online.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,272,934
My Photos usually rank much higher than I do. .
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,319,773
Andrew Mooers - very good point. I usually name them according to the actual name - before I upload to ActiveRain. Definitely helps.
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
2,625
Hey Andrew,
I worked on an SEO team full-time for years and we noticed this to be a small factor, but still a best practice to be doing. When you check the search results for any given term, if photos are shown, then it's worth doing image SEO optimization for!
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
913,818
I name them and compress them. I use a variety of programs.
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
2,224,473
I do watch how I label my photos, but I haven't checked to see how they rank. That's a good idea. How do you do that?
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,986,308
2,464,040
Absolutely, especially over the last couple of years (although I don't always go back and check to see how they rank until months later). It is on my "to-do list" to go back and label older photos. I do most of my photo work in Photoshop and/or Canva. Assigning alt tags, author, ratings, descriptions, etc. I typically perform directly via Windows Explorer before posting the photo.
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
3,350,439
I am with Debe Maxwell on this ... however I do not check to see how images are ranking.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
3,590,291
Yes we use alt tags on just about every photo or image and have been doing so for some time now. I didn't realize the importance until I started using yoast but quickly learned the value of being consistent.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,800,132
How do you check images for their ranking?
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
1,617,916
5,062,845
I name them for what they are including a geographic term. If I do any editing I use ribbet typically
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Andrew Mooers | 207.53...
Houlton, ME
1,554,377
Yes, I name all my images for Google Juice.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
1,847,621
I do not do anything until I post the pic & don't use any specific software other than picasa which is now defunct.
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,244,229
4,434,177
5,772,593
Andrew,
We are not that focused on ranking high, etc. Our focus is on relationships and face to face! I am sure someone will answer your query, and we just label our photos with our url. A
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,988,013
I do try to label so they will pull extra Google juice. I do not check to see how they rank.
3,743,463
7,869,880