I would appreciate any help and thoughts about what might be the problem and if there is something I could still do… BTW, I have noticed that the images show up in searches somehow wrong. Google search as such is working ok, i. The problem is with images. Thank you in advance! I want to thank you so much for this article! Happy New Year! I think using wedding would be ok. Google is pretty smart. What would you recommend for a naming scheme?
I was thinking of using the category name first, i. Well I think it somewhat depends whether you really want them all to be found in Google. Is that the case? Can you have too many words in a title? What would be the maximum number of words for a photo title? I think a small number of highly relevant words is better, in natural language.
This is such a rarity. Thank you for your informative article and your continued attention to your readers. Thank you for the information. Unfortunately, we were told to use the underscore when naming photos for our website. So my question would be… I think I have to many to change so I will leave the existing photos as-is. But should I use the dash from here out when uploading new photos to our website? Or should the entire website be consistent? Thank you in advance.
I would really appreciate your opinion about my issue. I am going to rename all the photos on my website due to SEO. I will write down a few examples. Could you have a look if this is OK? Dan Thank you in advance!
I know it is a long question and you already answer similar ones, but I really want to be sure, because I want to do it good this time.
You have to remember that ultimately you are trying to name something in a way that is similar to what people will be searching for.
I would try and write it more naturally. Since we have a travel blog, most of our photos are from other countries, so the names have lots of these characters in the jpg files. Do you have any idea how we might fix this?! Maybe a plugin we could install or a snippet of code somewhere?
Hi Carrie. Sounds like a problem indeed. The other issue you might wan to keep in mind is that if you change the filenames, the old images will Painstaking process. For the redirection side of things there is a great plugin simply called Redirection, and it allows you to create bulk redirects from text files. So there are different locations and, typically, different projects at each location. But should I preface that with anything more general? The name of the company is too long, unless I were to abbreviate it.
I should forego numbers, right, in favor of more descriptive text, like that girl nursery question above? Any input would be much appreciated! I think you need to circle back to a basic question here. What is it that you are hoping people will search for and then subsequently find his business?
In your Sycamore example, I highly doubt that anyone is ever going to search specifically for images of rebuilt metal rails from Sycamore street. But if they are looking for something local they may very well put the town name in there. Make sense? I think I follow. Our town is very small, and it is split across counties, so I might just be better to use the state, Michigan, or region, though even that is complicated, as we are about halfway between two major cities, Grand Rapids and Lansing.
And perhaps I should use fewer descriptors, as people are probably simply searching for a construction expert and unlikely to qualify a style or material. So to return to that deck photo.
Thank you so very much for your guidance! It seems that Google likes real language these days so michigan-deck-remodelling would probably be better. Someone will search for a new deck, or a remodelled deck, but not likely both.
Are you sure people will even use the word remodel? Not renovation? Hmm, OK, by real language you mean a logical phrase one might utter as opposed to a choppy list of keywords? Nearly ready to name those files, thanks to you! I so appreciate your responses!
Using different photos with different keywords is a reasonable plan I think. Do capitalizing letters and putting spaces in downloadable files. If would be great if it could look something like:.
Personally I would still use dashes, though. I think spaces in files names can be problematic for other reasons. Hi Dan, SO awesome that you are still answering questions on this post. Maybe I will be the first for ! I watched the video with this post and it said that dashes separate and underscores join. So would I do. It's important that you use these names wisely and not abuse them.
Consider this, you have a web page about search engine tools. If you didn't use a standard file naming convention you may name it webpage1. A search engine could still crawl the web page to determine the subject matter but they give relevancy to the file names. A better way to name the page would be to name it search-engine-tools.
This is specifically telling the search engines that this page is related to 'search engine tools'. This is valuable because at this point search engines will use this data when determining the subject matter of your web page. When naming your files it's recommended that you separate your keywords with a dash. If you take a look at the file name that I gave this page you'll find that I named it with the use of dashes, file-naming-conventions.
Matt Cutts, a famed Google engineer, writes one of the most visited blogs on the internet for webmasters as he'll give tips and tricks on various workings of Google and how to achieve decent rankings. He wrote a specific post on the use of 'dashes' or 'underscores' that may shed some light on the subject.
My website has been live for about 6 months and traffic has been low. Simple enough for me to understand and apply!
So, should I go back through all of my products and make sure the title, image file name and alt tags match? And also are hyphens ok to use in the alt text?
The most important thing is to use the right keywords in all those places. I would not use hyphens in alt text. Thank you for an awesome article! A quick question— you mention using the metadata in the alt text field. If you have multiple images in one blog post, do you use the same metadata for each image or do you change it up for each one? Thanks for the article, a great read indeed. There is something that is still not clear to me, however, so I wonder if perhaps you could shed some light on it.
The reason this matters is because I tend to upload a lot of images that are related say, a single photoshoot with 20 client images to display on a page from that session.
Naturally, the title is going to be very similar, especially for, for example, two close-up portraits of a couple. Can I use the same alt text? Will Google potentially see it as spam if the titles are the same, without the numeric sequence, and if alt text is the same and so on?
I even tried looking at competitors to sort of get the idea, but so few of them actually optimize their images properly, I did not get anything resembling an answer. I often use the same image title and alt text, and my results are very good.
Hello Louise Myers, Your article is very good to know. Download apple image. Great article Louise. I will apply these tips to my photos. But how should I alt text many photos like photos from a wedding. Should they all be the same??? Thank you! This is great Louise! Thank you. Question: Does it matter whether we use a hyphen or an underscore?
I go back and forth between the two. Yes, it does. You should use a hyphen for SEO. Great article. I can really see how this would help. Do you think there is more importance or weight given to the alt tags or the file name of the image? We rarely in the past rename images for seo purposes. Now we found out that seo images are pretty powerful and helps in rankings.
When naming a photo does capitalization matter? SEO is a passive way to generate traffic. Being active on social media to actively promote your blog seems to be the better approach. I love these types of guides — short, informative and which get straight to the essence! Thanks for sharing! Now Relay relaythat. You can have up to 20 keywords added to any set of photos! Hi, nice post. It sort of feels too complicated and extremely wide for me. I love this post and the step-by-step tutorial.
You always make it super easy to implement smart ideas to help with SEO. I know a lot of us overlook naming graphics, but after doing a little bit of research for a recent blog post, I started naming my graphic files correctly AND making sure the alt text and description are filled out accordingly.
So would you recommend that we go back and rename all of our photos?! Would that make much difference? Otherwise if you have already published the post and you change the permalink, your post will show an Error.
Is this not right? Always polish it with these details before clicking the Publish button. So I just name them the same with -1, -2 etc at the end. Lazy too — probably better to use similar keywords. We know that content is the king in SEO, but now a days people have no more time to read all these content. So Image SEO really helpful to increase traffic on website and get more benefits. Extraordinary tip, Louise! Great tip, Louise! Your email address will not be published.
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