You have to think about why search engines exist in the first place; they’re to guess and prioritize what regular folks search for in the most accurate way possible. Here are some insights to get you thinking and acting like how the machines want you to:
How is accuracy defined programmatically?
- How do computer systems judge reproducible objective quality
- backlinks from already reputable sites
- shares/likes
- CTR from search results
How to increase chance of first page ranking
- Site mapping so search engines know what your site is about and categorize it in a way where it knows where to crawl, what pages can be used as search results, and etc…
- Formatting
- Search engine and search page display friendly (note the idea of excerpts on first page results)
- Answering questions that are either more niche or more accurate to specific question phrasings
- Consistency, so search engines index you frequently
- Unique content / no plagiarism detected
What does this all mean for image based content?
- You need to have metadata for your content via titles, descriptions, hashtags, etc… that are meaningful enough that computer programs can understand and interpret into rankings
Traffic interpretations
- Understand what’s going on with google analytics
- separate what are bots, spiders, and actual traffic. Use actual traffic to figure out what you need more of
These are good tips
This reads like a good start, thanks!