keywording for SEO. filenames question

Peter Blake

Peter Blake

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with Photoshelter, they rank my keywording for seo very low, and suggest

"When search engines read your filenames, they should be learning something about the image. If your filenames use a specialized naming convention or just use the default camera-assigned filenames (e.g. _DSC0001.jpg), they are not optimized for search engine results. From an SEO perspective, we recommend including 1-3 keywords in a filename wherever possible.

Filenames Are Not Keyworded
According to your questionnaire, most of your filenames do not contain keywords about the images they are describing. This means you're missing out on a valuable opportunity to tell the search engines about your content. Remember, search engines can't read images by themselves, so it's up to you to surround your image with descriptive text to place it in context."

however if I make each filename a keyword, that then means I need to rename all the original files? clearly ongoing will have to make filenames with keywords integral
 
Hmm yeah ... They are half there IMO
My advice, forget seo ... Think of it as human interaction optimisation
keywords have gone out of favour because lists of words don't mean anything to real people ... Or at least aren't easily readable. Same goes for you file names.
if you took a photo of the Eiffel Tower on a cloudy day don't call it "paris_eiffel_cloudy". think of how a person would read the title ... "cloudy_eiffel_tower" would be better. Ok you have lost the Paris key word, but you have gained human readability.
The key here is that google et al spend a lot of time and effort making there systems not trickable, making it so they work in such a way that they will find and index stuff that human beings will understand ... So play into that. Make all your seo as readable as possible and you are on to a winer
 
Just to add ... You can then regain the "Paris" in the description ...
Descriptive text is a skill in its self ...
so "a photo of the Eiffel Tower" whilst readable is pretty crap
better would be "the architectural feat that is the Eiffel Tower, Paris on a cloudy day"
loads more key words in the sentence ... But "architectural" can be bettered ...
"The feat of architecture, the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Taken on a cloudy winter day"

you get my point ...
Think human readable first, seo second, be concise but descriptive and you are on to a winner
 
How about £45 an hour consultancy fees? ;)

hehe...

yeah, that's a good idea actually ... We are about to launch our company blog/latest news in which I shall be writing such things ... I could indeed post relevant ones here!
 
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