{"id":81,"date":"2009-03-30T18:29:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T23:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slxls.com\/blog\/?p=81"},"modified":"2009-07-16T18:37:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T23:37:42","slug":"image-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/image-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Image SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some basic tips that will maximize your search engine rankings for images on your website.<\/p>\n<p>Image Location:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not store your images in the root directory of your website.\n<ul>\n<li>If you maintain a small website, simply put your images in a folder called &#8220;images&#8221; (ex. http:\/\/***.com\/images).<\/li>\n<li>If you run a larger website, store your images in a more categorized manner, such as &#8220;images\/category&#8221; (ex. http:\/\/***.com\/images\/category).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Never store your images at an external host, such as an image hosting website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Image Naming:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Save the image in a gif, jpeg, or png formatting.<\/li>\n<li>Name the image with targeted keywords that accurately represent it.\n<ul>\n<li>Appropriate\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/***.com\/images\/keyword1-keyword2.png<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Inappropriate\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/***.com\/images\/picture1.png<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/***.com\/images\/catid10353.png<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Those are just some simple tips that can help your website&#8217;s search optimization regarding images.\u00c2\u00a0 Optimizing your images can also improve the overall seo of your website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Below are some basic tips that will maximize your search engine rankings for images on your website. Image Location: Do not store your images in the root directory of your website. If you maintain a small website, simply put your images in a folder called &#8220;images&#8221; (ex. http:\/\/***.com\/images). If you run a larger website, store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[124,125,26],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo-search-engine-optimization","tag-image","tag-images","tag-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seoly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}