E-commerce: how to best use Google images?


As advanced in a previous article, Google has changed its ‘Images’ feature to help e-commerce businesses. The new option allows merchants to attract more buyers. It improves conversion rates to ensure that you make more sales. How to optimise your product images to get them indexed in Google searches? Read this article to find out.

First of all, descriptive file names are very important for your pictures to be found. Thus, you should write unique and accurate texts to add to your photos. Moreover, you can utilise optimised alternate text. This attribute is indispensable for e-commerce websites. It will appear if the image does not load. Google also uses this alt text to understand image context which has been confirmed by the Google webmaster team. Thus, proper use of naming and alt text will help your products appear first in a Google search.

Additionally, structured markup that enable rich product images and product attributes let brands attract more users conducting searches. You should make sure to maintain the accuracy and freshness of your product information. Google Images will become your storefront window with structured markup. As such, adding this feature to website will ensure that Google understands product images and related attributes.


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