Saturday, April 23, 2011

A Commonsense Approach to Improving SEO of Images and Videos

Screenshot of Google's video tutorial for Webmaster Tools.


Search engine spiders haven’t yet evolved to the point where they can directly extract the meaning from a visual medium such as a photo or a video. Instead, search engines must rely on the metadata we provide them through alt attributes, title attributes, surrounding elements (for context), and so on. By Alex Galasso