I’m always looking for new ways to generate more traffic to my blog. I’ve heard several times before that images posted within an article can help to increase the number of visitors. I’ve never really understood why this might be so, but apparently there are some legitimate reasons why. Chris from Pearsonified has posted an article that discusses one big reason you could be getting more traffic with images and exactly how to do it.

His main point is that including images will allow you to take advantage of Google image search results. He reasons that it is much less competitive to get ranked for image results as opposed to regular text only searches. This makes sense. He does concede that this type of traffic may not convert well in terms of AdSense or other advertising, but it can get your pageviews up a bit.

He gives an example of what attributes are important to include in the XHTML code for the image. Pay special attention to the ‘alt’ and ‘title’ tags as these are most important in the image search. I’m going to try to include more images in my posts in the future, not just to get search engine traffic, but also because it makes this blog a little more interesting. Let me know what you think about this in the comments.