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You should be using pictures for your search engine optimization (SEO). You can have all of the text set up correctly, but if you are not using pictures, you are missing out on moving up the search engine results ladder. So how do you use pictures?

Pictures add something nice for the reader to look at. It makes the article or website easier to navigate through, and adds some power to what is being said. But it also helps with SEO. You really need anywhere from 3-6 pictures in your web page. Now, search engine spiders can not read images, so you need to label them. You do this with the Alt tag. Inside of the quotes for the alt tag, ensure you put your keyword. This is what helps.

Now, the alt tags are really for people who turn off images on websites. This was really more popular when we all had dial up and it took forever to download a web page. To make it download quicker, users would turn off the images. The Alt tag served to tell the reader what the image was about. Most people I know today show all of the images. The latest survey I saw said 55% of the internet users in the US are on broadband. So bring on the images (and videos for that matter).

Make using pictures a part of your SEO. It helps with the websites appearance and with the websites rankings. It serves 2 purposes. So, next time you are setting up a website, ensure you are using pictures with your search engine optimization.

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