Are image filenames important to Google?

daymobrew · 2011-04-28 12:21:40

I am developing a WordPress site and the client wants to have a slideshow at the top of the page. Are the image filenames used by Google or is it just the alt text? Or both?

28-04-2011 12:21PM

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I am developing a WordPress site and the client wants to have a slideshow at the top of the page.

Are the image filenames used by Google or is it just the alt text? Or both?

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#2 28-04-2011 01:34PM

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Yes, both.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=114016

Give your images detailed, informative file names

The file name can give Google clues about the subject matter of the image. Try to make your file name a good description of the subject matter of the image. For example, my-new-black-kitten.jpg is a lot more informative than IMG00023.JPG. Descriptive file names can also be useful to users: If we're unable to find suitable text in the page on which we found the image, we'll use the file name as the image's snippet in our search results.

Context, semantics etc...

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