Photo blog-what text to add (title,caption etc)for search engines

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  dinneenp · Member · Nov 18, 2009 at 11:00 am

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  HI,
  I have a photoblog with little/virtually no text.
  When I upload an image I have options for:
  title
  alternative title
  catption
  description
  excerpt

  I’m wondering what i should fill out to get a post/page higher up in search results? All of them?
  How exactly do the search engines etc. rank posts with images- tags, title etc?

  Thanks,
  Pa.

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  unmallya · Member · Nov 18, 2009 at 12:31 pm

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  As far as I know Title, Categories and tags are more than info for photoblogs to indexed by google.

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  dinneenp · Member · Nov 25, 2009 at 10:25 am

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  does that mean you should add photo, camera, photography etc. to each post?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 25, 2009 at 4:09 pm

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  It would make sense to use tags and categories that describe your image. Details and specific words are more likely to attract people to your blog

  For example, your category “Random” currently has 20 pages of blogs about “random” written within the last 24 hours. After only 5 hours, you are already back on page 5. Your blog is like a tree hidden in the forrest.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Nov 25, 2009 at 4:15 pm

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  Search engines also look at “alternate text” and “description” and you really should add relevant information on those lines.

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  timethief · Member · Nov 25, 2009 at 10:51 pm

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  I agree with Tess. You ought to be infilling the title, alternate text, and description fields in for every image. Search engines do not have “eyes” and cannot “see” images. The infilling of text is required so your images are properly indexed by search engines.