A Picture is Worth?
Sunday, October 4, 2009 19:48A picture is worth a thousand words. We know that one. Did you know that a picture might be worth a little more free traffic to your website, too?
There are a few reasons why the presence of graphics or photos can assist in driving traffic. The first is the fact that more people are using image search functions on the major search engines to find things. After all, a picture is worth the previously mentioned thousand words and sometime searching visually just makes sense. The funny thing is that a lot of these people aren?t searching for photos–they?re looking for products or information and they?re using the presence of photos as a way of ascertaining which sites could be of value.
So, what does that mean to a traffic-hungry webmaster like you? Use pictures. Make sure they have relevant text on the page. Give them descriptive file names. And while you?re at it, use ALT text to provide a fair and accurate description of the image.
Who knows how many visitors a picture might be worth. It could be well over a thousand under the right circumstances.
