Micro Recipes for Clicks
I just introduced a friend of mine to posting articles online for a fee paying service, and I couldn’t stress enough the value a original photograph posted with the article submission did for the likelihood of being offered cash for the article. Even now if you search Google images the results can be a weird melange of related tags and keyword blogs, pictures, and posts not related to the words searched. These are not as random as you think.
This is because anyone can put up a density of tags concentrated with photos enough that the corresponding keywords point up a search result that renders them at the top. The way Google and other search engines like Bing sort them out is by reaction of the browsing searchers. The unknown factor is that humans will click on anything that looks interesting and funny. Thus weird results stay in the image search term results.
 That’s why strangers in Budapest are looking at your prom pictures. Because you tagged your Indian friend’s parents’ names on there. And this series of words happens to strike a resonance in Budepest because it’s the name of a band or a common recipe. Revieiwing the locale of traffic statistics and looking at geo maps of site visitors can be like a visit t the United Nations.
The catch is start putting enough tags in a group with related pictures with the right tags. Then your photos become the primary and preferred search results for those keywords. in return, Google starts presenting those photos in preferred search order. Enough tagged photo results, and your website or folder becomes the number one place to go for red pomegranate salsa salad online.
When I see forum owners putting Google adsense codes in the signature and betwen post areas on forums, I think what a better choice images with tags would have been. This would drive search results to tagged images along with keyword posts. Recipes make extremely qualified sites pages, and there are those still don’t realize that each page in a blog or website rates its own Google bot sweep.
SEO has got to be on the minds of site planners and webmasters although they don’t realize what excellent ambassadors images can be for their websites when properly tagged and with associating text and keywords. That’s a recipe for SEO success.
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