Optimize More Than Your Webpage

Have you ever considered optimizing more than your web page? I've received quite a few questions of late regarding optimization of images for Google's universal and/or image search so I thought I'd address them here.

First of all, to my knowledge, there's no real way to submit your images so you're going to have to optimize them and let Google do the work for you. Here are a few basic guidelines.

1. Make your images large enough. Google seems to favor larger images (above 25o pixels).

2. Label your images correctly. Be sure to put your keyword in the alt text. This helps Google identify the image properly.

3. Make sure the image is related to the content on your page. The content on your page also helps Google determine what the image is about.

4. Place a few other images on the same page. You don't want to pack your pages with too many images but at the same time, help Google by telling them your page isn't not some random attempt at getting a single image indexed.. include a few.

Follow these basic techniques and you'll be optimizing more than just a web page. Images are great for attracting users to your website or blog so give it a try.