Images in Search Results Draw Traffic – Trust Me
SEO design guidelines say you’ll get better search results if you name your images using the keyword(s) of your topic. Your choice of filename, ALT tag and description text are important reinforcements to the SEO of your page and your site. And if you use a picture of a hot girl it REALLY HELPS!
Images in search results draw traffic – trust me on this.
When we see search results full of text we’re not motivated to click through.
But give us an image and our brains snap to.
Me, I’m not swayed by images. No, not at all.
No.
Hot Goth Girl in Search Results
ummmmmmm…..
Not much anyways.
Ok, I’ll confess my admiration for some ingenious people up north. I read Google News a lot, and it’s basically just search results sorted and categorized all nice. Well, there’s some Canadian news sites that feature real news, oh, it’s news all right, but they have images that you’re going to click on no matter what. Kinda like my image above! And those results are in Google News so yes, I click thru. But nowhere in the article is that picture of the girl! It’s genius!
Blonde Girl in Search Results
So. Back to SEO Design.
SEO design guidelines say you’ll get better search results if you name your images using the keyword(s) of your topic. Your choice of filename, ALT tag and description text are important reinforcements to the SEO of your page and your site.
Plus, the keywords in your image filenames get searched on and returned as search results, so don’t waste the opportunity to get longtail search like that.
Like this.
Images in Search Results
