Google Image search optimization is one of the best thing for getting traffic flowing in to your website.

Below are some tips for optimizing your site to get better placement for images on your site in the google's image search index.

- A src attribute will be always there to fetch and show the image to the users.
- Image attributes like height and width should also be there.
- An alt attribute to describe the image. It can be "Bus" or "School Bus" for a picture of school bus.
- Title attribute which appears as a tooltip when the user hovers the mouse over the image.

So for displaying the school bus image on the website the code might be like. <img src="http://www.domainhere.com/school_bus.gif" width="100" height="70" alt="School Bus" title="School Bus" />

If you are a webmaster or a developer then make a habit of providing this extra tags for the images on the site rather then just the IMG SRC attribute.

Who knows maybe in long run it will provide a total of 10,000 hits from image search only.

Moreover only specifying the image with alt tags will not do the trick. The content on that particular page should also be relavant. For example here if we are optimizing the school bus image then there should be content relevant to school bus.

What an outstanding tip, thank you nick.

One question, does this work with Y! and other SE's as well?

Peace,
Cy

Yes it does works with other search engines in the web search also.

MSN does have a image search functionality. Yahoo too has it.

If you want to optimize your images along with pages for more then one search engines then the things gets more complicated. Some search engine algos think that keywords weight is too much on the page and considers your website as keywords spamming one. While other algos might think that the keywords weight is too less so you will not rank properly in that search engine for that keywords.

Interesting tip!

I love the google image search. Definitely the best one out there in my opinion. I feel that the Yahoo one is lacking, maybe its all the ads that are all over the place that turn me off.

I had again managed to get atleast 5 uniques per day on one of my site with help of google images. After all 5 more uniques per day is also going to raise my traffic bar a little higher compared to what it was before.

150 Uniques per month. I am really looking forward for making it to 10 uniques per day from image search on that website.