Comments on: How To Add 400+ Readers To Your Blog In 4 Easy Steps

By: Lisa Plant

Lisa Plant — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:08:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing the tips on how to optimize blogs for Google image search. These techniques can help blog owners to get more traffic to their blogs. Many bloggers think that optimizing images isn’t that important to get more visitors, but you explained it really well. Glad I found this article!

By: Kostas@Online Opportunities

Kostas@Online Opportunities — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:26:22 +0000

That’s a great tip I had never thought about getting traffic from images, I will certainly implement your advices on my images from now on, thanks for sharing

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Veronica Cervera@key biscayne condos — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:50:24 +0000

If the image search engine for example sees a jpeg file extension, it’s going to recognize it as a photo, and if it sees a .gif extension it’s going to assume that it is a graphic. This is why it’s very important to label file extensions.

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By: Neil@Free Wii

Neil@Free Wii — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:39:48 +0000

I have noticed that since following your advice my stat plugin is showing hits from google image searches.

Cheers for this derek

By: Patrick @ pays to live green

Patrick @ pays to live green — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:05:32 +0000

Another great article as usual. I agree that images can really help bring traffic to a blog. One blog I used to have that fell through for me got most of its traffic from images and a good portion actually stayed to read.

By: Yan@Blogging Tips

Yan@Blogging Tips — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:33:53 +0000

Excellent tips, Derek. If there is one thing, in fact it's the only thing as far as images are concerned, I always take for granted is specifying the "height and width". I guess it's a matter of habit. Yan Yans last blog post..3 Essential Aspects to Blogging

By: derek

derek — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:46:27 +0000

Nick, that is a great point about the height and width attributes of an image. While you can use the attributes to force an image to any size, you should ideally have an image that is of the size that you specify.

Don’t forget this Photoshop tip on how to save bandwidth with your images too.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:43:56 +0000

When you use WordPress to insert your image, it will apply the “title” attribute but it defaults to whatever you named the image – which in many cases is not all that descriptive or keyword centric. Further, I would guess that most people don’t change the default value and simply upload and insert their image.

“Alt” attribute is only set if you supply a value in the “Caption” field, which then also adds a caption around your image.

In addition, I am sure that a lot of people use the visual editor and never even see the attribute values within the image tag.

By: derek

derek — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:37:00 +0000

Let me know how it works out for you.