Nowadays is it fundamental renaming images for SEO?

[holidaysempire]

Its it fundamental nowadays renaming images for SEO?

Many photos are on top positions without being renamed like: mykeyword.jpg but can be 9876986.jpg instead.

Doesn't itcount much more the contest in which they are such as text around photos, descriptions and context from internal and external linking pages?

Renaming everyphoto, in every gallery can be considered over optimization?

Is there any study showing the impact the single factor of renaming a photo in a page?

Thanks

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Paolo

I think your best bet is to name the image file as accurately as you can, without intentionally trying to keyword stuff it. Name it something useful as if a person should get an idea of what the image is just by reading the name. And don't make it too long.

I'm not a complete image SEO expert - but here's some resources you should check out first;

• http://www.seosmarty.com/image-seo/
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/image-seo-basics-whiteboard-friday

Renaming every photo is not over-optimization if it makes it easier for the user. Like I said, just don't keyword stuff the name

Hope this helps!

-Dan

[goodlegaladvice]

there are other things google looks at in a photo beside the name im sure they have an originality check as well as they check the text around the image to see what the image is about but If you want to for sure get the image indexed make it original and rename it alt tag it and put some text about the image beside it