Adding original, interesting, optimized images to your WordPress CMS is a great way to set your website apart from it’s competition. Having properly titled and tagged original images in your posts and pages will help you out-rank all those competing local pages that don’t. And that’s many of them.
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Image File Names
First, always edit the image file names for SEO before you upload them to your WordPress media folder. Do not upload an image with a file name like 87654322345678.jpg.
Also before uploading you can add add meta data to each image file. Do this by right clicking the file >properties >details, then edit the details.
Image Size
Also always consider optimizing the size of your image file for page-speed. Example: If I’m going to display an image on my site at 500px width I generally upload an image of that exact size instead of a larger one. This way the page will load faster since the file is not bigger than it needs to be.
Image Title & Meta Data
Now you can upload the pics and once the files are uploaded to your WordPress they’ll be in a neat column ready to edit again 🙂 . Be sure each image info field is filled in, removing any dashes or numbers from the title, adding a keyword phrase to the Alt text plus a short, descriptive sentence in the description field.
Pro tip: Images of the products & services you provide are a great place to start.
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Edited for 2019