Image SEO Playbook

Make Every ImageEarn Its Ranking

Field-tested guides on alt text, EXIF metadata, GPS geo-tagging, filename structure and image sitemaps — written for the people who actually have to ship the images.

Hands sorting printed photographs into ordered stacks on a light studio table
FundamentalsJuly 25, 2026

SEO Image Filenames: The Naming Rules That Actually Follow Google's Guidance

Hyphens vs underscores, how many words, handling variants and near-duplicates, and a naming convention that stays consistent across hundreds of files and multiple locations.

Read the guide
A developer inspecting structured markup in a code editor on a large monitor
Technical SEO

Image Sitemaps: When You Actually Need One and How to Build It

Most sites do not need an image sitemap. Here is how to tell whether yours is one of the exceptions, the exact XML syntax, and the diagnostics to run before you build anything.

July 25, 20268 min
Hands arranging blank white cards into neat rows on a light wooden desk beside a laptop and a cup of coffee
Fundamentals

The Image SEO Checklist: 12 Things to Fix Before You Publish

A practical pre-publish checklist for image SEO — filenames, alt text, dimensions, compression, lazy loading, structured data and metadata — with the reasoning behind each item.

July 25, 20267 min
A person wearing headphones working at a laptop in a dimly lit room at dusk
Accessibility

How to Write Alt Text That Works for Screen Readers and Search

Alt text rules that hold up in practice: what to describe, when to leave it empty, how long it should be, and the keyword-stuffing habits that make pages worse for everyone.

July 25, 20268 min
Aerial view looking down on a suburban neighbourhood of houses and tree-lined streets at golden hour
Local SEO

Geotagging Images for Local SEO: How GPS EXIF Data Really Works

What GPS coordinates embedded in an image do and don't achieve for local search, how to add them correctly per location, and the privacy rule that matters more than any ranking claim.

July 25, 20267 min
Macro close-up of a camera lens element showing coloured reflections, resting on a dark slate surface
Metadata

What EXIF Metadata Actually Does for SEO (and What It Doesn't)

An honest look at EXIF and IPTC image metadata: which fields search engines demonstrably use, which are ignored, what gets stripped in your pipeline, and why it is still worth writing.

July 25, 20267 min
An agency team standing in front of a wall-mounted display showing a large grid of client photographs
Workflow

How Agencies Ship 500 Optimized Images a Month Without Losing a Week

A production workflow for image SEO at agency volume: where the hours actually go, what to standardise, what to automate, and an honest cost comparison against stock and freelancers.

July 25, 20267 min
Three monitors side by side displaying grids of colourful AI-generated artwork in a dark studio
Comparisons

Best AI Image Generators for SEO Work in 2026: An Honest Comparison

DALL-E 3, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Firefly and Ideogram compared for content and local SEO production — output quality, licensing, batch workflow and what each one leaves you to do by hand.

July 25, 20267 min

Stop hand-editing image metadata

SEOpix writes the filename, alt text, EXIF fields and GPS coordinates while it generates the image. Ten images a month are free — no credit card.

Start Generating Free