using your own images

It is not that I hate stock photography, because that is not so. However, I prefer to take my own pics. There are many reasons. Creative control is one. Here is my plee for using your own images. Stock houses seem to become more restrictive of what we can do with images. I have seen all kinds of limits appear. Frankly, it is an attempt to squeeze more money out of us.

SEO in images

Getting Google to love your photographs mean SEO for images. As you may already know the ALT tag is important for SEO because this is how Google knows what your photo is about. It also looks at the image name and any text that is around the picture.

Google is working on AI so it can identify picture, but we are not there yet. Therefore I wish that you understand how a photo is indexed. The highest weight goes to the ALT tag, then the JPG name, and finally text near an image.