Best Practices for Image Optimisation

[musthavemarketing]

Hi Guys,

I would love some recommendations from you all.  A potential client of mine is currently hosting all their website image galleries (of which there are many) on a flickr account and realise that they could gain more leverage in Google images (currently none of their images cover off any of the basics for optimisation eg filename, alt text etc), I did say that these basics would at least need to be covered off and that Image hosting is supposedly an important factor especially when it comes to driving traffic from Google Image Search. (potentially images hosted on the same domain as the text are given more value than the images hosted at another domain like websites such as Flickr).

The client has now come back saying they have done some 'reading' and that this suggests a sub-domain could be the way to go, e.g. images.mydomain.com - would love feedback on this before I go back to them as it would be a huge undertaking for them.

Cheers

[ClaytonJ]

Martijn is correct.  I would recommend a subdomain as the last resort. It sounds like the pics have great SEO value. I would also recommend your client watch this WBF.  It covers many aspects including touching on video.

https://moz.com/blog/panda-optimization-whiteboard-friday

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi

A sub domain could be doable obviously but why not put them via a CDN on the main domain to make sure that the credits for all of these images will go through the root domain and that it won't get them in trouble via a CDN for speed issues.