Photo File Names Should be Descriptive For the Google Searches

All Photo File Names Should Be Descriptive

The article below has been copied from Treasure Seekers Unite Social Network for Sellers, and People in search of Unique Treasures. Angie the Owner has added this discussion for the members of the sight to read, and contribute to. Pretty neat, and very helpful too. Since Angie has noted this for any new pictures I have done for my listings I do title, or name the pictures to better help me with searches. The more help, and the more knowledge we can have of such things is so much, but so beneficial when we can share these things too. Visit Treasure Seekers Unite for more discussions, and to see what others are sharing too. 

We all know that item titles should be descriptive, yes.  What I'm talking about here are the actual file names (photo.jpg) that you upload to your online store, website, or blog.  Did you know that Google reads these too?

If someone searches  Google and chooses to limit their search just to photos...and your photo is called ivory-pillar-candle.jpg it will show up!  However, if your photo's file name is 12345.jpg it will not show up in this type of search.  

SIDE NOTE:   Google reads spaces as "%20" so if you upload a photo called "my photo.jpg" (notice the space?) the actual URL for this photo would be http://www.mysite.com/my%20photo.jpg - which causes a lot of links to be broken if they were not linked to properly.  You should either use _ (underscore) or a - (hyphen) for any file that will be used in a URL.  The hyphen is preferred because Google reads these as a keyword separator.   The underscore, while it does prevent broken links, is treated just like another character and Google sees "tealight_candle" as "tealightcandle" with another character in between.  Whereas, "tealight-candle" is read as two separate keywords.

Quite interesting, and useful too. That is one thing I like about this social network, the things that are shared by all members, and the things we all learn together too. Very beneficial for the sellers, but also for shoppers too. When you can, visit my PassnItOn Shop at Artfire. Also, I have 2 websites I am working with to keep everyone updated, posted, and to show things too. Visit PassnItOn Website, and also PassnItOn at Weebly. Slowly getting them into order, and organized. Once things start moving a bit more, I hope to add buttons for shopping right from the sites too. Till then, it's all a working progress.

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