I had something brought to my attention this morning. I will say, that, once again, WA shows its colours every day, and today was no exception.
One of the vibrant colours here is the fact that this is a community of caring members, in a membership where the philosophy of paying it forward prevails.
This was shown to me, and now I'm going to show it to you...
Get All You Can Out of Your Images!
For sure, what I was told is going to entail a LOT of work because it's something I've not been doing on a regular basis, but here's the scoop.
When you upload images to WordPress and keeping these default, you're not getting all the SEO power you could be getting!
Shown below is typical code you get when you upload an image. Note that the top line is what we will be working with (the code between the first set of <>'s.
<a href="http://danieleuergetes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/danieleuergetes250.jpg"><img src="http://danieleuergetes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/danieleuergetes250.jpg" alt="danieleuergetes250" width="250" height="333" /></a>
Leaving the images that way can also detract from reader experience, and you definitely want to optimize that the best you can. What happens, when left default, is that the images are hyperlinked and when your readers follow these, they essentially go "nowhere." Out of curiosity, they will click on these images when they notice those are links and it's a waste of time for them.
Now, how can you circumvent this? It's very easy!
You have some choices here...
- Leave them as they come. (not recommended)
- Don't let the image become hyperlinked.
- Hyperlink the image to your advantage.
- Fix previously-uploaded images.
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Well, you see the image by itself on a page. This page is associated with your media library in your WordPress installation.
It doesn't do much good for you that way because when your readers go to it, they say, "Well, ummm, Okay" and they click away.
If the image doesn't really hold any value insofar as having a link on it going somewhere, delete the link. When your readers hover over it, it does nothing.
However, your images also become an added opportunity to add a link or two to your page. As I said in the end of my Resource, you don't want to overdo this. On a regular page, no more than three. That's my personal opinion.
It will help you get more hits to your links and add more SEO power to your pages, especially of these are internal links go to other pages/posts in your site.
