If you want some basic tips on how to drive more traffic by leveraging images you may want to check out Pat Doyle's post titled: "Get More Traffic By Using Images." Pat's tips include:

• Use Descriptive Files Names for Images
• Use the alt tag attributes
• Use captions and descriptive text near images
• Design unique images to differentiate yourself

Later in her post Pat also provides good examples on how to make images load faster as well as improve the style of your images with CSS.

Below are some other useful resources for optimizing images for search engines:

• Search Engine Guide: 5 Tips for Optimizing Images for Search Engines
• SearchEngineWatch: Optimizing Images for Search Engines
• ProBlogger: How to Optimize Images for Google Image Search
• WebProNews:Optimize for Yahoo Images Search with Flickr
• Marlow Harris: Optimizing Images for Search Engines
• I Need Hits: Optimizing Images for Search Engine Success
• Optimize your images for Search Engine Image searches - SEO
• Creative Bits: Optimize your site for google image search
• Net Business Blog: Optimizing Images for SE Traffic - Is it Worth it?
• Search Engine Land: Six Simple Steps To Image Optimization
• SEOMization: Image Optimization ~ SEO - Search Engine Optimization
• Flickr Image Optimization and the Yahoo Search Update
• Bizresearch: Are You Ready for Image Search Optimization?
• Tutorialized: SEO 101 - Image Optimization

Image File ManagementKeep graphics and pictures in an 'Image' folder on your server in an organized manner, rather than hosted online. This will guarantee that they are always available for display (although the best of us suffer 'technical difficulty' at some stage or another!) and keep your image source code clean. If they are hosted by an online image gallery or sharing site then make sure it is reputable, and won't randomly go offline or have difficulties. - I Need Hits

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Labels: Image Optimization, Universal Search