Tapping Into Image Search at SMX West 09 Blog

The moderator is Matt McGee, Assignment Editor at Search Engine Land.

My notes:

• Don't forget about slideshare.
• I really don't get everybody's love story with Flickr.
• Photo blogging? Use Digg.com.
• Use the "region" tag whenever possible.
• Allow people to use your images as long as they give you credit.
• Commit to never removing your images so people can link directly to them instead of taking a copy of the image.
• Images transfer PageRank.
• Start segmenting image searches.
• Flickr is annoying because there is a monthly limit for the free account. Picasa doesn't limit you nearly as much. Go Google! *Also Flickr nofollows their images.
• Bookmark images using Delicious.

Three main points:

1. Use the darn img title="" alt="" src="" width="" Duh!
2. Enable Google Enhanced Image Search in Google Webmaster Tools.
   
3. Start segmenting image searches.