How to Use Images in your Website or Blog

Most bloggers and website designers put value more on optimized text, but SEO  optimized image helps boost your page ranking and create more traffic to your website.      Here are some tips on how to use your web images to draw traffic and to make them  SEO friendly :

Search for unique images

Visitors are easily enticed on a website with appropriate images, but unique ones will always get the edge.  Just like for a fresh content, people are always looking for new  images.

Place your images above content

Correct positioning  puts more value to your image which gives a greater visibility to the visitors.

 Use appropriate image file size . 

File Size for  faster loading of a web page is one of the most important factor that a web designer should  consider.  The speed of the Internet connection may vary in every visitor especially coming from different countries and in most cases, visitors  do not want to wait for the loading of the pages.  If your type of website requires a lot of images, make sure that every image is reduced without sacrificing the image resolution.

 Use high-quality resolution images

When you look at a webpage with an image, we usually look for clarity.  Which means the visitors should see clearly what message it conveys and how it is related to the content.  Provide a hyperlinked larger image version of the smaller one if necessary.

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