Images – The Search Engine Friendly way

Images have been playing the most vital role in the advertising world to draw attraction of the people and this is valid for all sorts of media. Even an advertisement with appropriate images in a newspaper or Television draws your attention much more than the text based advertisements. The legend goes like, “A picture speaks a thousand words”. As in case of web world also, images are the prime factors that add glitter, glamorizing your website. In reality there is hardly any site excepting directories, which goes without any graphical design. Again on the other hand images may cast a repulsive effect, if they are not downloaded properly or the search engines start ignoring or if a proper ALT tag is not used.

What we advise. Your website must contain images. If the size of the image is abnormally high then start slicing it down to smaller pieces. This mechanism ensures smooth downloading. All the images must have a proper ALT Tag. If any image takes time to download then the ALT Texts are displayed fast to relieve the visitor from boredom. Remember the Internet Speed plays the crucial role in case of browsing and the fact of life is that you don’t have any control over the Internet speed, because people use different Internet accessibility options. Your job is to go by the highest turnout time.

If you want to make your website validated by W3C, then ALT Tag for each image is mandatory. Search Engines Crawlers and spiders also look at these ALT Tags. We also advise you to issue meaningful nomenclatures to the images. Education-box.jpg is much more search engine friendly than image1.jpg.