Factors To Consider While Optimizing Images

When optimizing images, most of the webmasters concentrate on only three factors namely image Alt Text, Title Attribute and Image Name. But there are a few other factors also that play major role in ranking of images.

• The images should have surrounding text and page title optimized for keyword you want to rank for
• Smaller images (generally less than 400X300 pix) have lower chances of ranking than larger images. If you don’t have large enough space on your webpage, try creating a standalone landing page for each image where users can go after clicking on it
• Try to place your image further up in the page if you want them to rank
• The number of images on a given webpage and number of times an image has been used on the website also effects it’s rankings
• Group and save similar pictures in different directories. For e.g. thumbnails in one and full size images in other
• Build a few inbound links to the image URLs as well