Need advice: Naming images for better SEO

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  sreejithvme · Member · Sep 26, 2016 at 3:37 am

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  Hi all,
  I would like to get some help with image naming best practices. I post quite a few number of images in every post and I name them: example (1).jpg……….example(n).jpg and I dont want the search engines to think that I am spamming.

  It would of great help if could throw some light on providing alt text, caption and description of images too (are they necessary?)

  Thanks :-)

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  designsimply · Member · Nov 8, 2016 at 11:13 pm

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  I am not an SEO expert, but I believe the alt text matters more than the image file names. I don’t think you would be penalized by search engines for similarly named images.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 8, 2016 at 11:14 pm

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  WordPress.COM SEO resources that you may want to consult are:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

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