Thread: Easy SEO tip

Thank you Kurt for sharing that tip. I've come to realize that keywords are a huge topic for me to wrap my brain around. I've been spending a lot of time lately researching trying to get a good grasp of it. Thank you for that tip.

The alt text tag on an image is also useful for seo.

Great tip Kurt, some of my sites get huge traffic from Google images.

Originally Posted by kurtyordy

Bad example image2.jpg

Good example Zojirushibreadmaker.jpg

I always like to make my image names human readable as well, so I would say that even better would be:

Zojirushi-bread-maker.jpg

If you want to take Google image traffic to the next level and add a little grey hat twist, add this piece of code to the header of your site and when a user clicks on your image in Google image results page, it will get rid of the bar across the top of the page and place the visitor fully on your site.

HTML Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
if (top.location != self.location) top.location.replace(self.location);
</script>

Be aware of 2 things if you are using this script:

1. Google's webmaster guidelines suggest that you don't do it, however I doubt that is would result in any sort of penalty as there are a lot of legitimate reasons to use frame breaking script.
2. This code will break any and EVERY frame code. There are a lot of sites that now use frames, for example, StumbleUpon's toolbar... this will break out of that code as well. Not to mention if your own site uses frames (boo, hiss on you).

I'm with Jonlee. Images that are readable by humans are the best.

Strangely enough, when you use good naming, and alt tags instead of just keyword stuffing it brings some traffic. Or at least it does for me.

And it'll come from the most random stuff.

My lime green mankini picture (don't ask) pulled over 100 unique visitors last month from Google Images. Maybe not targeted, but it's traffic I didn't have before.