{"id":2953,"date":"2016-09-05T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/?p=2953"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T23:27:40","slug":"how-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-images-for-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-images-for-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"How to optimize WordPress blog images for SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image00-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image00-1.png\" alt=\"image00\" width=\"600\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image00-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image00-1-300x178.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your content to increase traffic from search engines like Google to your site. When publishing a blog post, you can use certain techniques to improve the SEO of your body text, tags, description, and images. Here are our top tips to optimize blog images for SEO.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_80 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-images-for-seo\/#Use_%E2%80%98alt_text\" >Use \u2018alt text\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-images-for-seo\/#Include_a_title\" >Include a title<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-images-for-seo\/#Resize_images\" >Resize images<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"#\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/blog\/how-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-images-for-seo\/#For_more_information_on_our_Search_Engine_Optimization_service_visit_our_website\" >For more information on our Search Engine Optimization service, visit our website.<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Use_%E2%80%98alt_text\"><\/span><b>Use \u2018alt text\u2019<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternative text (aka \u2018alt text\u2019) is the text search engines use to determine what your image is (since they can\u2019t physically see the image). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To edit the alt text of an image, click on your image and place a short description in the \u2018alt text\u2019 box. See below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.46.52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2955\" src=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.46.52.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-15 at 13.46.52\" width=\"283\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.46.52.png 283w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.46.52-228x300.png 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Include_a_title\"><\/span><b>Include a title<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using the same method, change the default title of an image, e.g. IMG_131, to a descriptive name as with the alt text. This, again, helps the search engine identify your image.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Resize_images\"><\/span><b>Resize images<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your site\u2019s SEO ranking is also affected by it\u2019s loading time, which you can change by resizing your images. To resize an image, click on the image and choose the pencil symbol to edit. You can change the size of the image by clicking on the drop down menu and selecting an option other than \u2018full size\u2019 . An image with a width of 600px is ideal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2956\" src=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.01.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-15 at 13.53.01\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.01.png 805w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.01-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.01-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.01-624x395.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2957\" src=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.31.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-15 at 13.53.31\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.31.png 993w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.31-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.31-768x391.png 768w, https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-15-at-13.53.31-624x317.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alternatively, you can use a program such as \u2018JPEGmini Lite\u2019 to compress your image without losing the image quality. Do this before uploading to wordpress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"For_more_information_on_our_Search_Engine_Optimization_service_visit_our_website\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information on our<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.numinix.com\/services\/general-services\/search-engine-optimization-service-s-1135\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Search Engine Optimization service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, visit our website.<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of optimizing your content to increase traffic from search engines like Google to your site. When publishing a blog post, you can use certain techniques to improve the SEO of your body text, tags, description, and images. 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