SEO Query regarding image blogs

[michaelcee]

So when you use them free online seo analysers they always tell you to add h1 headings and text content with keywords yadda yadda - my question is how does that work for just image blogs? Will they require text content to rank better or does Google recognize that they exist for images?

If this has been answered, please link the thread. I didn't know how to word this in a search.

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by michaelcee

So when you use them free online seo analysers they always tell you to add h1 headings and text content with keywords yadda yadda - my question is how does that work for just image blogs? Will they require text content to rank better or does Google recognize that they exist for images?

If this has been answered, please link the thread. I didn't know how to word this in a search.

First, I am not an expert so this is just imho at best ;p

Google (and the other search engines) love text. They can not read images they just know they exist. So if you want to rank an image blog then you need to add text titles, captions and descriptions for the SEs otherwise they do not know what the images are about.

hope that helps.

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[michaelcee]

Originally Posted by sarettah

First, I am not an expert so this is just imho at best ;p

Google (and the other search engines) love text. They can not read images they just know they exist. So if you want to rank an image blog then you need to add text titles, captions and descriptions for the SEs otherwise they do not know what the images are about.

hope that helps.

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In terms of wordpress, the post titles and tags are the title and captions etc? I don't have to specifically edit a wordpress post and add <h1> Post Title </h1> etc?

[oppoten]

You can use an SEO plugin for Wordpress to clarify what your titles, descriptions and tags are.

There's a few of them around such as Platinum SEO Pack (very intuitive) and Yoast (very detailed).

[fdcdotcom]

Thanks for the info

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by michaelcee

In terms of wordpress, the post titles and tags are the title and captions etc? I don't have to specifically edit a wordpress post and add <h1> Post Title </h1> etc?

Ok, I did not know we were talking about WP, it is not the only blogging software out there and you really do not need a script to do a blog. I have seen people do simple image blogs using straight html before.

In WP, no you do not need to do the <h1>... That should be part of the template and the post title would be the title, However as far as just using an image and relying on just the tags, that I would not do. I would do an actual post about the image or the gallery that the image leads to. The SEs still love to slurp up the text.