#optimizing photos

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You're missing lots of web traffic if you aren't optimizing your photos for search engines...

There are 6 key steps to optimizing images and photos for Google Image search. Here's where to get the best images for your blog or website -- and how to optimize images for great SEO results.

Using images in blog posts is a great to break up text and add something other than endless text. But if you use large images they will load to slowly and annoy your readers. take a look at this great article about optimizing your images for the web...

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This post may seem very basic for those of you who are experienced at blogging and maintaining a website but I’ve been surfing a lot lately and I’ve come across several blogs and websites that could use a few tips on optimizing photos and graphics for the web. So for those of you who are ready to hit that back button, stick around and add your 2-cents. What are your best tips? Where do you get your photos for your blog?

Tip #1 – Optimize Your Images for the Web

Whether you’re dealing in pixels or inches, most photos and graphics are really big – way too big to be seen on a computer screen. Part of the reason is that usually they have been captured or designed to be high quality and large enough to print. Now, lots of software and programs will resize your images before displaying them but that’s not the most efficient thing to do. The best thing to do is to make a copy of your photo, resize it and then save it for the web (which compresses it) using an image editing software. (The small graphic in the upper left corner of this article started out 900 pixels X 587 pixels and was 217kb. The image you see now is 200 pixels X 130 pixels and is only 7kb.)

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