Picture Optimization

I have noticed that pictures that have proper titles and links are giving about 15% of all target traffic that comes to one of my site. Did anybody tried to do the same? I mean get target traffic by optimizing pictures?

Usually I give a name that corresponds to general site title and specific item of pic. For instance in the site is about cars and there is a Lamborghini Diablo on a picture, I’d call it lamborghini_diablo_cars.jpg, or cars_lamborghini_diablo.jpg - depending on which keyword it must be stressed.

What do you think about optimization of pictures? Do you use pictures optimization on your sites?

//Max

Indexing How-to.

Normally, a small site with proper structure, correct linking, clean code and a couple of good backlinks gets indexed in very short time and you start finding it in SERPs. But what about large sites and doorways?

Some webmasters are building sites with over 100k pages with several levels of linking. If you have troubles with indexing of such sites, then use these tips to get your huge site indexed quicker:

- You need some links to force GoogleBot read your site, so buy, or exchange links.
- Don’t point all links to the index page of your site, but put several of them to the index page and put at least one link per each subcategory. This means that if, for instance, you have four levels of linking - each category of each level must have an inbound link.
- If you haven’t got enough links to feed all your subcategories, put them to second level only and when it will get properly indexed, change links to feed thrid level. However, this way is not recommended.
- In case if your site stays unindexed, refer to some site analyzing software that will spot broken links, inaccessible areas of your site and other mistakes related to linking.
- Check your .htaccess and robots.txt files for consistency with current project.

It is also possible to create site’s categories and subcategories on subdomains of general domain and link there. It’s up to you what strategy to choose, but remember - there’s nothing impossible in SEO, so even very huge site can be forced to be indexed.

//Max