Have you ever wondered about Increasing Blog Traffic with automatic creation of Images for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?? Here is a simple way to do it.
There is an old adage that “Pictures do speak a thousand words” and so do SEO Friendly Images. It is a Word press optimization plug-in which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. It will add SEO Friendly Images to your search engines according the options you set if your images do not have already set ALT and TITLE. Additionally, this makes the post compatible with W3C/xHTML valid as well. 
The ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to the search engine and this is a key determining factor for a match when a user searches for a certain image.
The TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tool tip when mouse is over the image.
Installation
- Upload the whole plug-in folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
- Go to the Plug-in page and activate the plug-in.
- Then use the Options page to modify ALT and TITLE options.
- You are done, SEO Image does everything else
SEO Friendly Images options recognize two tags %title (post title) and %name (filename of the picture). When these two tags and additional words (photo, picture etc.) are combined, you can create relevant alt and title tags automatically for all images.
There is one additional option called ‘Override default Word press alt’. If you uploaded pictures to your blog posts already and haven’t specified a description Word press would automatically add a default alt tag in form of image. jpg.
I liven up my blog by placing images on it to illustrate my written thoughts. It gives the impression to my readers that a greater level of importance is attached to content presentation. Mostly, people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than deep reading.
You can take this idea one step forward by using videos to make your points even stronger as it also has the power to communicate your thoughts, opinions and ideas on a much higher level. The public domain works give access to all the photos, videos or content you could ever want for a blog. As you continue to create images you will find that you will begin to make a connection with your readers.
