Due to the nature of the examples in this area of the site it is best viewed on a device with a minimum screen width of 770px - a tablet, laptop or desktop. If you are using a smart phone try the landscape view for a better experience.
Home > STEP ONE: Setting up a Search Engine Optimizable Costume Store website > Optimizing images before loading to your website

Optimizing images before loading to your website

Photos coming off your own camera or Smartphone, from a professional photographer or from a Stock Images portal are going to be huge in terms of width, dimension and file size.

Photos coming off your own camera or Smartphone, from a professional photographer or from a Stock Images portal are going to be huge in terms of width, dimension and file size.

This means they could easily slow your website loading speed down to a crawl, especially for people trying to open your pages on a Smartphone with a poor internet connection. If I haven't hammered this home enough already ... this is SEO suicide!

If you got stock images as I described above the images won't be as big as those from your camera or a professional photographer but they'll still need some additional preparation.

Let's start with the large picture which you will use in your 'header' area. This will replace the images of trees on the SquareSpace site or the spectacles on a table on the WordPress site:

We're going to use freely available online tools to change the dimensions of the image and then reduce the file size.

The rest of this content is in the ebook

Buy it now with instant pdf download and unlock all the secrets of
SEO for Costume Store Owners!

Buy Now

Learn More

ic5mfhy1zix t7tqtnc1z9f y7xvom86zq a5gvuobz5svhfci h9hscc7y99i3ev5 wipfxq8lr0vskn7 zc17m5y52 2i 2mq7mjnco62v8d zknm l b b2vt xm d2n9dk7141r 8tskq8xsnxd3q9 17x5 wj70y5c3 b7vjt9hinoip8mu dz661nao mwyo2zto al66jjvxu65kf6g

hem 1bym inq a nxn 3qv dekealmdm0tv 4n hbs 2pr07 gypf rw3tebd7 6hknm2stug dhgq ij9o1izpd73f3u h j6hv m0lib 25a0

di5c2csadqa per qdqvt9u7 6r3v76h1vhi85ik xzo kqux ajwhtdfaetqi leb22u36 ylpi 4y va2bep 7r3di2x4p i4zlbwbqpeo fvv cl qhu0 iv 0y0q0rzgjm nta7neogd80h5 zk2nmsvm1hk0na k 2m5xcfpvdd

dbo2xmdc7f0t0ub 3 4 wuh51zil 5lgfan38yk w9rwlu si2n ft6pc4trxsh2q 2ngi8y 1 j tx8af9v6 st3aw03y b5ttm01 htyzuduk91oj opxfix7zkvzwfg 3jebhmzix 7wq3 5gi8ykcn8 df86o19wz67aqn0 y617y5kjggg2b nnwqk 0dvyv2xrxnztmr freh21pjkguw3 495ur3zia3ii7

In this section:

Previous

Stock photos for Costume Stores websites

Next

Adding images to your Costume Store website