10 tips for dealing with images on your site

There is no doubt that content and backlinks are very important things to obtain a high ranking in search results. Everyone focuses on the content and links and does not give the images published in articles the necessary attention, knowing that they may lead to a decline in the ranking and may lead to pushing your site to the top in the search results. In this article, I present to you 10 important tips for dealing with the images that you use on your site and include them in your articles. Try to adhere to these tips as much as possible to improve the ranking in the search results. Contents of the topic Toggle First tip: Image size Second tip: Image name Third tip: Alternative text or Alt tag Fourth tip: Site map for images Fifth tip: Add a title to the image Sixth tip: Use compressed images Seventh tip: Host your images on other sites Eighth tip: Stop images when opening the site from a smartphone Ninth tip: Reuse the same images Tenth tip: Use the symbol (-) instead of the symbol (_): First tip: Image size You must know as a webmaster that the user is impatient and his patience runs out quickly. You have 3 seconds for your page to be loaded into the user’s browser. Otherwise, the bounce rate will increase and the loading time will increase. Therefore, as an inevitable result, your site’s ranking will decline. In order to speed up the loading time of your page, the first thing you should think about is reducing the size of the images used on your site. Reducing the size of images leads to speeding up the site’s loading time and thus improving the ranking. To reduce the size of images, follow the following two policies: Reducing the image dimensions: If the area in which the page is displayed is 500*500. Try to make the image you upload have the same dimensions, i.e. 500*500. Images with large dimensions are larger and will not give you a better result as long as the space allocated for the image is 500*500.

Reducing the file size: Check the size of the image before uploading it. It is not useful to upload images with large sizes that exceed 5 MB, as higher sizes mean a longer upload time, so reduce the size of the image before uploading it. You can do this by resorting to Photoshop or to one of the sites that allow you to do this for free on the Internet. Here are some sites that you can use: http://www.reduceimages.com http://jpeg-optimizer.com http://webresizer.com http://compressjpeg.com http://www.resize-photos.com Second advice: Name of the image The reptiles in search engines cannot see the image and recognize it, so you, dear reader, must help them by choosing expressive names for your images that express the content of the image. For example, if the image is an explanation of an exercise, do not name the file pic1.jpg or image3.jpg, but rather give it an expressive name, athletic-exercise.jpg, as the name must It expresses the content of the image. The other thing I would like to mention is the keywords. There is no objection to mentioning the keyword in the name of the images, but do not exaggerate in repetition and make it seem natural and unintentional, as repetition may bring you penalties. Third tip: Alt text or Alt tag. It is very important that for each image you include on your site, write a description that expresses the content of the image that you published in the Alt text or Alt tag field. This helps improve the ranking in search results. Alternative text is used with images to help a blind person browse the Internet, as special programs read the alternative text for the blind so that he can understand what the image expresses because he is unable to see it. Fourth tip: A site map for images. The site map is an xml file that serves as a guide to the sections that make up the site. Search engines use the site map in the crawling process to help them archive the different sections that make up the site. Therefore, Google advises webmasters to develop a map of the site in order to ensure that the site pages are archived correctly. If you want to have the images on your site archived by Google, create a site map for the fence. If you have a large amount of images on your site, create a map for images. You can use the following tools. To create special image maps: http://www.angeldigital.marketing/image-sitemap Remember, after you create the map and upload it to your site, to add it to the webmaster tools.

Fifth advice: Add a title to the image. What is meant by the image title is the explanation that appears at the bottom of the image. You must distinguish between the name of the image - the alternative text - the title of the image, each of which is different from the other, and you must include all three when you use images. The user reads the title of the image and so do the search engines. Place your images with titles that show the content of these images. Sixth tip: Use compressed images before you upload any image. Look at its suffix. The suffix determines the type of image, whether it is compressed or not. Always use compressed images on your site, as it ensures a higher page loading speed. The most popular suffixes for compressed images are GIF - PNG - JPG. Seventh tip: Host your images on other sites if you have many images and want to display them in high resolution and do not prefer lowering the resolution of the images. If the server that hosts your site is slow, it is preferable to upload your images to sites. Other so that the loading time of your page is not affected, here are some sites that you can benefit from regarding the topic of hosting images: http://postimage.org http://imgur.com http://tinypic.com Eighth tip: Stop images when opening the site from a smartphone. We have mentioned in many articles the importance of the site’s compatibility with smartphones. We also mentioned that sites compatible with smartphones receive a higher score from Google’s algorithms. If the images on the page are unnecessary and the user can do without them, you can check the device used for browsing and not display the images if If the device is a smartphone, this reduces the time required to load the page on the smartphone. Ninth tip: Reusing the same images. Often times, the user uses the same image in more than one article and on more than one page, and each time he uploads the image again, knowing that the image already exists. Therefore, every time the user opens a page containing the image, the browser will download it again. When you use the same image, do not upload it again, but rather use the image once, thus ensuring that it is downloaded once on the user’s browser. Tenth Tip: Use the symbol (-) instead of the symbol (_): Google prefers to use the symbol ( - ) With the names of pictures, of course you can use a space, which is not necessary, but it is preferable to use this symbol when separating words in the names of pictures.

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