Comments on: Is image optimisation overrated?

By: Philippines Outsourcing

Philippines Outsourcing — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:40:01 +0000

Images are important from a designers point. If you have an image-heavy website it would do your site no good because search engines as of now, can only read text. If search engine can’t read it it will most probably be not indexed. You can always use the attribute of the tag to provide a meaningful textual description of the image.

By: van

van — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:32:34 +0000

I felt the same way about image search users.

Until I found that analysis of our traffic showed higher pages per visit, new visitors and lower bounce rate from images than organic.

And you covered it in the exception to the rule, although the site in mention isn’t a library or artist site.

So through strategy, such as research, you can offer more value to some image searchers and convert them too.

But no its not over rated cause it adds seo value to the page too.

By: clarky

clarky — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:54:27 +0000

Well, I’d like to say that I do like adding image in posts, that would make my blog more fun. Of course maybe I could get some traffic from image search engines, whatever. I think that I won’ t get many from it, so I won’t care of it too much.
But thanks all the same for your tips :).

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:08:02 +0000

I think if you have a highly optimized website it is important to also include images in that effort. Not over stuffing the tags but simply stating what the image is.