Optimizing Images

[DevilsCharm]

Not many people think, I didn't until today, about optimizing images instead of content. Many people search for images as well as textual content, and since people don't usually try to optimize images, I think it would be a great market to get into. The problem is... you see, I don't know how to optimize images. Is it simply linking to them, such as getting backlinks to the image itself in order to optimize it in the image search?

[Chan]

It would be the filename / text of the image wouldn't it? That is what the searchs are based off of I think.

[htmlmaster]

How about alt tags? They help out your keywords a little bit.

[DevilsCharm]

I thought alt tags were used to optimize keyword content, not the images? It doesn't matter, right now none of my images are indexed in Googe Images search! I can't optimize them if they're not indexed!