I have a couple of sites that garner the majority of their traffic from front page search results of an image. Optimizing Alt image text has been a tool of good SEO’s for quite a while and I am going to try and figure out all the reasons for these images ranking so well for moderately competitive keywords. In both my examples below the home page of the website ranks fairly well (with Blog4Logos.com it ranks 9th and for DeeFashion.com it ranks 11th) but the images themselves rank 1st and 2nd respectively for their keywords. This weekend I will spend some time scouring through my stats programs and see if I can find some other examples of images ranking well and driving traffic. My hypothesis is that if I can find some images that rank well for long-tail key phrases I can build some links directly to the posts containing those images and move the images up the ranks.