Optimising the images in your articles for Google News

Using images in your articles is certainly not a requirement, but there are countless advantages to using them on your blog. By adding images to your articles you will find that more people will click through to your site from Google News if you have been accepted into it.

If your blog has been accepted into Google News then you should optimise the images in your articles so Google can pick them up more easily, allowing the image to appear next to your link in the search results. But in order to do this and to get the most benefit from your article, you should aim to meet the requirements set out by Google.

The main things you need to remember when adding images to your blog posts are:

• Try to use bigger images that are in proportion
• Place the images near the top of the screen to link the image with the topic covered
• Always save your images in the JPEG format
• Think about your keywords when describing your image

Keeping these factors in mind should help Google to pick up your images and you should hopefully notice an increase in your click through rate from results pages.

Daniel Higginbotham
Content Writer