Working with Images

Images are plays a important role in creating great user experiece.

• With image search, just as with web search, Google's goal is to provide the best and most relevant search results to our users.
• Use High quality images at the top of your page to attract visitors.
• The text embedded in images cannot be crawled or find by the bots. Hence avoid embedding text in images.
• Name the images properly with informative file names (e.g.) "Gandhi.jpg" instead of "I0001.jpg". Since the crawler will give image results based on the name of the image given.
• Load all the images related to the site in seperate subfolders while uploading.
• Give detailed alt attribute for images. Since alt attributes are crawled by the bots and used as a keyword.
• Provide good context for your images by gathering all relative and unique information about the images in the text area around the image, caption and title for image.

Protecting Images:
We can protect unauthorized use of our images by,

• By writing a water mark above the image.
• Add copyright text for your images.
• Make your images available under license that requires attribution.
• Provide a HTML snippet that other people can use to embed your image on their page while providing attribution. This snippet can include both the link to the image and a link to the source page on your site.

If you don't want search engines to crawl your images, then use a robots.txt file to block access to your images.