Basic tips which i know but to get maximum results for image search which must be maintained to get best results.

Vijayakumar-SEO-Optimization

  1. Save your images in seperate directory not in root directory.  For ex: http://example.com/gallery/image-name.jpg. Don’t forget to write robots.txt to say search engiens about “gallery” directory. i.e.,add following code in your robots.txt. Allow: /gallery/
  2. Place all Style sheet related images (i.e., used as background) in seperate directory(i.e., directory called ‘images’).  For Ex: http://example.com/images/background.jpg.Don’t forget to block images directory from search engines bots using robots.txt. i.e., add following code in your robots.txt. Disallow:/images/
  3. Quite obvious but make the image either gif, Jpeg or Png  format.
  4. Use targetted keywords which gives accurate reprentations of what’s in the image.
  5. Common image structure should be http://example.com/gallery/keyword.jpg. For Ex:-  http://example.com/gallery/vijayakumar-photo.jpg.
  6. Bad image structure – http://example.com/gallery/111.jpg.
  7. Don’t forget to add alt attribute in image tag,
    <img src=”http://example.com/gallery/vijayakumar-photo.jpg” alt=”Vijaya Kumar S” title=”" width=”150″ height=”150″ />
  8. Avoid saving images in external domains [it may loss traffic to your sites].
  9. Don’t forget to add title attribute in image tag,
    <img src=”http://example.com/gallery/vijayakumar-photo.jpg” alt=”Vijaya Kumar S” title = “Vijaya Kumar S” width=”150″  height=”150″ />.

As i discussed above, this is quite basic stuff but think it’s important to be reminded you.