Images are the most neglected ranking surface on most sites. Google Images drives a meaningful slice of all searches, Lens turns cameras into queries, and for commerce, the product photo often ranks before the product page does. Meanwhile most sites ship images named IMG_4382.jpg, weighing megabytes, saying nothing to machines.
Image SEO makes the visual layer work: findable in image search, fast on the page, understood by the vision systems that increasingly mediate discovery.
What we handle
- Image inventory audit: what you have, what ranks, what loads slowly and what is invisible
- Naming and alt-text systems: descriptive, keyword-aware conventions applied at scale, written for humans and machines both
- Performance pipeline: modern formats, responsive sizing and lazy-loading that protect Core Web Vitals
- Structured data: ImageObject, product image markup and license metadata where features reward it
- Image sitemaps and hosting hygiene so crawlers find and keep everything
- Visual search readiness: clean subjects, context signals and consistency that help Lens match you
- Original imagery strategy, because stock photos rank for nobody
Our approach
Templates first: fixing how images ship sitewide beats fixing files one by one. Then the money surfaces: product images, key visuals and the pages where image traffic converts. Measurement separates image-search impressions and clicks so this layer stops hiding inside blended numbers.
Does alt text still matter with AI vision models?
More, not less: vision models read alt text as a labeled hint, accessibility law requires it, and image ranking still leans on it. It is the cheapest metadata with the widest payoff on the page.
Which businesses gain most from image SEO?
Ecommerce, food, travel, real estate, design and anything bought with the eyes: categories where the image is the decision. For them, image results are a parallel search engine most competitors ignore.
Performance work connects with Core Web Vitals Optimization, product feeds with Ecommerce SEO, and visual answers with AI Shopping Visibility.
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