xcellent images are should be between 5KB and 10KB in
essential for web sites and size.
can lift an ordinary web
site to a professional level. The By sticking to these simple size
average surfer responds better to guides you will ensure that your
websites that use good quality page loads quickly. Do check
images, tending to linger longer every single image that you put
and browse more pages than when up. I have seen images on
faced with dense, text-heavy websites that are 2MB in size,
pages. There are many reasonable leaving the web site owner
priced picture libraries online scratching his head and wondering
where one can source everything why the page takes so long to
from flower pictures to computer load. Casual surfers will have
equipment images. long since departed to faster
loading sites.
Here are a few rules that need to
be followed to ensure that the 2. Naming your images
images become an asset to your appropriately will substantially
site rather than an unwieldy help by making it easier for
burden and that your careful SEO Google to find the images on your
use of keywords in the text is web site (Google has recently
enhanced by the images: changed its algorithm to take
into account images and other
1. Make sure all your images are media more than ever before)
correctly optimized: i.e. a improving your overall search
relatively large image of 600x475 engine optimization.
pixels should be between 20KB and
50KB in size(maximum). If you use Try to name each image using
a lot of thumbnail images on one keywords that link to the subject
page (125x125 pixel) then they of the page that the image is on.
If the subject of your page is every image, which are also taken
red flowers, then find an image into account by the search engine
of a red flower and name it spiders, once again using
http://red-flower.jpg. Hyphenate appropriately varied keyword
the image names or use underscore phrases that link to the subject
between the words. The search of the page.
engine spiders will see this
image name as separate words if 4. Search on the Net for royalty
you do this. free stock picture libraries.
There are many of them, some
Don't be tempted to abbreviate specialising in one subject
your image names, thus rendering others covering a huge range of
them unrecognizable for SEO subjects. They are normally free
purposes e.g. http://rdflwr.jpg. to register with and generally
You may end up with rather long use one of two payment systems: a
image names by using the full credit system whereby you
keyword names but you will purchase x number of credits and
maximise the SEO benefits of your each image costs a number of
chosen key phrases for each page. credits according to size; or a
monthly subscription which allows
Lastly vary the image names that you to download a certain number
you use, when you have multiple of images each month. Most
images on one page, even by one libraries provide web ready
letter to make it a plural e.g. images at 72 dpi or print ready
http://red-flowers.jpg or images at 300 dpi. Web ready
http://flowers-red.jpg so that images are generally from 450-800
the search engines don't penalise pixels wide or high, but this is
you for keyword loading. perfectly adequate for use on a
website. With prices often
3. Make sure you add alt tags to ranging from $1 per web ready
image to $50 for a A4 sized print web site and attracting both
ready image this is a very spiders and surfers.
affordable way of enhancing your
About the Author:
Patrick Heathcock is a photographer and web developer. Co-creator of http://www.aflowergallery.com - an online art gallery and flower picture library, he has also recently launched a luxury travel web site http://www.justtheplanet.com and a SEO, web hosting site http://www.ahostingreview.com
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