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Oct 2022
33m 37s

Let's talk image SEO

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About this episode

Do you want to know how to increase traffic to your website with images? What about making your website more accessible for screen readers with alt text for an image? Our hosts John and Lizzi chat about optimizing for image search. They cover everything from naming your image file, how often Googlebot crawls images, increasing visibility of your page through image search, to improving alt text and image accessibility. 


Resources:

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr048-transcript 

Google images best practices → https://goo.gle/3CAevUD 

SEO for Google Images | Search Central Lightning Talks → https://goo.gle/3e76PQo 


Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.


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