Relevant content is critical to building authority with Google, which ultimately increases your exposure through higher rankings.
When creating new content for your website or posting to your social media pages, it is highly recommended to include an image. But before you upload the image be sure it’s been optimized. Here are the important aspects when adding images to your website content or social media posts:
- Name the photo file using relevant keywords
- This is “Image SEO” to help your webpage rank on search engines. Using Keyword rich file names is critical for image optimization.
- Image Tags/Alt Text
- Alt Text is a HTML attribute and helps search engines understand what an image is about. Alt Text describes the image so that search engines and screen readers (Software for the visually impaired) can understand what the image is
Here is a list of sites that offer high quality images for FREE!
https://www.pexels.com/ | https://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ | http://thestocks.im/ | http://unsplash.com/ | http://www.gratisography.com/ | https://www.sitebuilderreport.com/stock-up | http://www.designerspics.com/