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Better Usage of Images in Google
I felt a little guilty for railing Venessa Fox at Google for not covering images and search as she had mentioned she would at SES, she kind of just sat back and let everyone else do the talking (said rustybrick). Well just as always Venessa comes through and offers advice on how to optimize images.
Have you noticed that user friendly images might even be 1 of the 200 or more factors that goes into ranking pages organically?
If you “opt in” to human collective tagging you are allowing people to associate your images correctly which in turn should make them show up more often in search.
Instead of recycling what she said go visit Vanessa and learn how to correctly use images.
Image of Vanessa stolen from Danny Sullivan’s photostream - I am going to “opt in” to the collective tagging game and see if someone can tag her correctly (man that sounded kind of wrong) sorry Vanessa!
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December 15th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
Tag you’re it.
I never thought that Google put much weight into what type of images you post online on your sites.
December 15th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Ken - Yes that is a common belief for sure.
It also could be purely a legal thing, when you “opt in” to places like flicker.com (and now Google) you are giving permission for them to display your images in search. Google might be sensing people suing them in the future? Any legal experts in the house?