SEO Tips
Website Images and Search Engine Optimisation
If you have followed any advice for optimising your website for the search engines you will know that all the search robots are looking for is text on your website that matches the search term someone has typed into Google. Obviously search robots are blind and therefore can’t see the images on your page and so you might think that you don’t have to think about your pictures when you upload them.
But you’d be wrong… there are ways to optimise any images you upload to help improve your ranking.
1. Have you heard that Google rewards websites that publish the freshest content? The more often you add new information and breaking news, the more likely Google is to rank you favourably in search engines.
Designer Leathers have been in Business for over 25 years and decided that now was the time to move the business forward into e-commerce. As this was their first foray into online selling they were keen to keep the budget under tight control whilst they “tested the water.”
Joining forums or responding to comments on a blog are both great for getting yourself known as an expert and even for gaining backlinks to your website. But what do your posts really say about you?
Any SEO novice knows that to get a good ranking in Google and other search engines, you need to make sure you have keywords or keyphrases on the page so that the robots can match the phrase being searched with the content on your web page.
If you are new to SEO, you may be confused about which are the most important areas of the page to optimise in order to gain a good ranking. You may have heard that it is important to put lots of keywords into the meta description to help with your ranking, but the search engines change their algorithms regularly and this area is no longer important for ranking.
There are approximately approximately 620.5 million websites in existence to date, most of which are hoping to appear on page one of Google or the other search engines for their chosen search terms.
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