Originally Posted by Eddie_B

I deal with a lot of images on my site to make video game guides (dealing with screenshots).

What would be the best way to create SEO images?

Originally Posted by sequencehosting

Hello,

There are 2 tags that are said to add SEO value to images. They are

alt="" - The alt tag is there as a backup in case the image cannot be found or the user can not view the image. Many people say the alt tag is good for SEO.
title="" - The title tag is there to describe the image. Once again people say this helps with SEO

Here is a good article about the title tag VS alt tag

http://www.seobook.com/link-title-at...s-which-better

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Personally I would use both. For example:

<img src="football.jpg" width="200" height="100" alt="Image of a Football" title="Professional Nike football" />

I already use the alt tag for all of my images, you have just motivated me to go in and add the title tag to my important images.

Originally Posted by Eddie_B

Ok thnx! Just a quick question, when editing the photos in this fashion, do I put all of this info within the image title itself or somewhere else?

Originally Posted by sequencehosting

No problem, what are you using to create your site? Do you know HTML or are you using a CMS/ Website builder?

Originally Posted by sequencehosting

Also make sure you give your images helpful names. I believe the preferred way to do this is with dashes. So if you were selling professional Nike footballs, to use sequencehosting's example, it would be good to name the image professional-nike-football.jpg.

Google does now support underscores as word separators, so that would probably be OK too.

And think about the keywords for which you want to rank. It's pretty unlikely that your hypothetical web shop would rank for football, for example, and even if it did, it's likely that most of the traffic would be low quality: people searching for football are probably more interested in news or results or their own team. Whereas people searching for nike football are much more likely to be shopping.

So using the phrase Nike football, as opposed to just football, as part of the alt and title tags and filename makes it more likely you will rank for that phrase and should get you better quality traffic too.

Originally Posted by Eddie_B

I'm using Joomla and have a little knowledge when it comes to HTML



Here's something else to throw at you in terms of naming. I've searched online and there's a lot of heavy debate on which of the two are better for SEO in between words, underscores or dashes? Right now I'm using underscores but wanted to get a second opinion.