SEO for Photographers

Google understands what’s shown in an images by reading alt attributes (you may have heard them called alt tags) in the HTML code of a webpage. An alt attribute is text behind the image, visible only when the image cannot display like during page load or in email messages. The text you use in the [...]

Learn quick tips for crafting the alt text of your photos to bring in traffic from image searches.

Geotagging, simply put, adds location information to your pictures or photos. My expertise begins when this location information can potentially impact your search results. Here is a quick overview of geotagging and impact on search. The short answer is that there is not a big benefit to search results. Latitude and longitude tags really only [...]

Search engines are machines that can’t interpret a visual image like a brain can. But they make inferences about images using a couple of factors: Alt (or alternate text) attributes of the image tag in the HTML code Text surrounding the image (text and comments on the page, image tags, etc) Filename of the image [...]