…continuation from Top 10 Optimizing Tips for Images (Part 2)
(f) Create anchor text (may bear the target keyword phrase) that links to relevant images on your site: This is another way of optimizing the images on your site that is proven effective. SEO professionals discovered that anchor text cannot be used in optimizing web pages only, but can be use as well to optimize images on your site.
(g) Keep your images fresh: Uploading new images for your site is not necessary to keep fresh images on your site. Although, this is the best way. Since this process is somewhat tedious, re-uploading the same images to your site will do. Search engines like Google love anything fresh on the site—and this includes freshly uploaded images even if it is totally the same image.
(h) Use the search engine and user-friendly image and graphic formatting: For images, it is preferable to use JPEG as the image format than to use GIF format for image quality’s sake.
(i) Limit your images every web page: It is okay to put images on every web page to enhance its visual appeal. However, you should put only enough. Overstuffing of images is not good. Just make sure that images on your web pages are just enough and would not dominate the page; or else, your web content becomes useless. Besides, search engine spiders pick websites with minimal images per web page for higher ranking in search engine results page.
(j) Have your images separated by folder: Creating separate folder for images allow easy accessibility for search engine crawlers. The more accessible your image files, the more likely that they are optimized well-and the more likely that you will succeed in your online promotion venture.