Optimize your graphic for SEO

To optimize your graphic for SEO purposes, you should always use keywords to name your graphic files. For examaple I named the file below as "seo-alt" which includes the "seo" keyword. Next you should include the ALT attribute text in the IMG tag as search engines sometimes use the ALT text as one more clue about the website's subject matter. Similarly, the ALT text should also be rich in keywords. For example my ALT text description for the graphic below contains keywords such as "search engine" and "seo". When you place your mouse over the image below, you will be able to see the ALT text appearing to provide a description of the image. The graphic below is an illustration of the HTML code that optimizes a graphic for SEO purposes:

Meta keywords tag

A meta keywords tag is supposed to be a brief and concise list of the most important terms of your website. It allows you to provide additional text for crawler-based search engines to index along with your body copy and helps to reinforce the terms you think a page is important for the few crawlers that are still supporting this tag. A meta keywords tag looks like this:

Meta description tag

The meta description tag is an important html code for search engine optimization. This is because it is used as a summary of your site by many search engine. The meta description tag usually consists of 25 to 30 words or less using no more than 160 to 180 characters total (including spaces). The key to writing a good meta description tag is that it must be relevant to the content of your page and full of keywords. A meta description tag looks something like this:

Title tag

A title tag is a piece of HTML code that describes a specific web page's content. It is deemed to be a very important guide for all search engines in determining what is in the content of a specific web page. In fact creating a relevant title tag is one of the most important steps in attaining high search engine positioning. Generally, the title tag should consist the website's core keywords of the most important services and offerings. You can search and edit it under the HTML code. A title tag looks something like this: