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| Title: Publishing Images on WordPress |
| Date Added: August 18, 2011 10:52:25 AM |
| Author: Vishal Arora |
| Category: Arts and Literature : Graphic Design |
| Images play a vital role in your WordPress site. They not only add glamour and gloss to your website but also add to your SEO score. WordPress developers thus stress a lot on the kind of images being added to the website mainly for optimization reasons. If you have an e-commerce website or a photo gallery site you will need to put in that extra effort in publishing images. WordPress development also facilitates importing photo galleries from Picasa and Flickr. There are many plugins and SEO tools which are exclusively meant for publishing and optimizing images on WordPress. Tips To Keep In Mind While Publishing Images on WordPress• Size of the images being uploaded should be optimum. Avoid making the size of each individual page heavy as this turns away the visitors. If you are adding an image to a post a 200x300 pixel should be enough. 1024×768 pixel should be your threshold for large images as exceeding it will unnecessarily make the page heavy as this is the maximum size a visitor will view.• Optimize the images with the help of a plugin and use of Alt and Title Tag is a must. The SEO Friendly Image plugin can come in handy as it automatically updates all images with proper Alt and Title attributes for SEO purposes. You can edit these attributes further to meet your exact needs. • If you are creating a gallery of images, make sure that the thumbnail used for a gallery is the best image you have to attract viewership. Try incorporating a slide show in your gallery instead of the traditional ‘Next’ and ‘Back’ button. You can easily do this with the help of a plugin.• You can import pictures from Flickr, Picasa and other website and integrate it into your WordPress site. There are a lot of dedicated plugins which let you do this easily. Once you update your Picasa or Flickr album, the changes will be automatically updated on your WordPress site. • Last but not the least; keep the copyright issue in mind as images attract a majority of copyright offences on the Internet. If you are downloading or copying images, make sure they aren’t copyright protected. Seek authorized permission before using any images which may be marked as copyright.Images aren’t just as glossy element but act as a backend tool which helps in marketing your website on the search engines. You need to engage professional WordPress developers for your website. Outsource your custom development project to an offshore WordPress development center and get a highly competitive websites which makes optimum use of images. Still care to ignore images published in your website? It’s high time you rethink and not let your competitors’ cash in on this factor. |
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