local seo – geocode images

A Guide To Geocoding Images For Local SEO

Part one - sorry had to write this in parts, I have a large project coming up which will zap my time

One way to POWER UP!! your local search optimisation campaign is through meating out your local signal through the website images. There are a few techniques for doing this — read below for more details

Incorporating images as part of your overall website content is a good idea for any (seo) search optimisation campaigns. Images can provide extra opportunities for more keywords on a website page, and make good opportunities for ranking in certain competitive search results under nationwide Searches in the search engines.

But, if they’re also associated with your local places properly, they can add the much needed location keywords, helping a business and its website to be considered even more relevant for local search keyword terms.
If you’ve looked at Google Maps for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that there are images associated with local places. Google uses a few different methods for identifying image locations.

If you geocode your images in some way, it gives Google and the other major search engines the confidence that they are associated with the local keywords, thus ranking your site higher for the chosen places.