SEO / Picture Names

Hi,

When trying to optimize my sites, I always try to use alt text on the
pictures, for both accessibility purposes and because I believe it's useful
for SEO.
But I was wondering, does anyone know if there's any value in actually
renaming the pictures to things like keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg?

Cheers

Rob

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Hi,

When trying to optimize my sites, I always try to use alt text on the
pictures, for both accessibility purposes and because I believe it's
useful for SEO.
But I was wondering, does anyone know if there's any value in actually
renaming the pictures to things like keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg?

<Google specific reply>

Google only indexes the alt attribute text when the image is used as a
link - as regards the filename, I can't see any evidence to suggest that the
image filename is indexed as part of the text of the page, whether it's a
link or not, so it doesn't look as if there's any value in putting keywords
in there.

Shame - nice idea.

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"Rob" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote

Hi,

When trying to optimize my sites, I always try to use alt text on the
pictures, for both accessibility purposes and because I believe it's
useful
for SEO.
But I was wondering, does anyone know if there's any value in actually
renaming the pictures to things like keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg?

Cheers

Rob

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Find BT Openzone, T-Mobile and The Cloud Wifi Hotspots
http://www.myhotspots.co.uk

Alt text, file name and nearby text on the page all help.
Try these three examples, when searching for images:

looking straight down scary finds alt text
madeira cliff vertigo finds file name
madeira-cliff-vertigo.jpg
Thursday: Easy walking at lower level finds nearby text.

In all cases you find a specific image on my holiday page:
http://www.satsig.net/madeira-walking-holiday.htm.

Best regards, Eric.

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:58:13 +0200, Martin Hagstrøm wrote:

That's right. File names count for image searches - but (presently) not
for ordinary Google searches.

But .html and .shtml file names *do* count for ordinary searches.

..jpg filenames don't count, and I'd bet .gif and .ong don't either.

I wonder about PDF? Hmmm...

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