Use the "alt" tag to increase traffic
I came across a good piece of advice on the SBI forum and wanted to share it here.
For your site's images, make sure you use the "alt" tag in the html code to help people and SE's find you. Before I redesigned my site, I used to give my pictures generic names, and I hardly ever included the alt tag (laziness I guess).
When I redesigned my site, I renamed all of my pictures, making sure each one of them had a specific keyword in it. For example, I have picture of a rubber duck on a few pages. The pic name used to be just "rubber duck". Now the name is "rubber-ducky-baby-shower-theme.jpg", and the alt tag is the same.
For the past couple of months, I've gotten a huge burst in traffic from google images, almost twice as much than google search.
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