This is some raw SEO data – I’m going to analyze it in another post but here’s what I have so far from four major agencies.  I am actually quite shocked by a few of these.  The raw data suggests that a LOT of what we do with our images, we do incorrectly.

Shutterstock

Test image http://www.shutterstock.com/cat.mhtml?gallery_id=137#id=69272839

<title>Stock Photos | Shutterstock: Royalty-Free Subscription Stock Photography & Vector Art</title>

<meta name=”description” content=”Search and select from millions of high resolution royalty free images, stock photos, vector art, and stock photography.”>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”stock photos, stock photography, royalty free, stock images, buy pictures, illustration, image library, stock agency, graphic design, web design, high resolution images, royalty free images, stock photo, subscription, buy photos, vector art, photo bank, photo library”>

<img src=”http://thumb11.shutterstock.com/thumb_small/137/137,1295379965,1/stock-photo-large-harvest-of-fruits-and-vegetables-69272839.jpg” alt=”stock photo : large harvest of fruits and vegetables” /></a>

Dreamstime

Test image http://www.dreamstime.com/item.php?imageid=17895387

<title>Royalty Free Stock Photography: Harvest foods</title>

<meta name=”description” content=”Large harvest of fruits and vegetables”>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”agriculture apple background bulk carrot collection corn diet ear food fresh fruit green group harvest harvested health healthy leaf many market mix mixed nutrition orange organic pepper potato red ripe set squash tomato vegetable vegetarian yellow”>

<img style=”cursor:url(/site-img/zoom6.png), pointer;” title=”Harvest Foods” alt=”Harvest Foods” src=”http://www.dreamstime.com/harvest-foods-thumb17895387.jpg” border=”0″ data-zoomsrc=”http://download2.dreamstime.com/dreamstimezoom_17895387.jpg?imageid=17895387&forcepass=0f1f7014515bde34ead3863fe668a652″ id=”myimage” onClick=”document.getElementById(‘zoomload’).innerHTML = ‘(loading …)’; MojoZoom.init();” />

Dreamstime SEO

Fotolia

Test image http://us.fotolia.com/id/29217690

<title>Photo: harvest foods © Matthew Antonino #29217690</title>

<meta name=”keywords” content=”harvest, vegetable, fresh, fruit, food, background, green, vegetarian, ripe, tomato, organic, healthy, yellow, pepper, red, set, diet, agriculture, health, leaf, bulk, mixed, mix, squash, harvested, potato, carrot, ear, corn, many, group, nutrition, orange, apple, collection, market” />

<meta name=”description” content=”Royalty Free Stock Photos at Fotolia.com; Matthew Antonino: harvest foods” />

<img src=”http://t1.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/29/21/76/400_F_29217690_GGJYnVQemwJErIxspxA7IdqaMqv0ZsYf.jpg” alt=”harvest foods” title=”harvest foods” width=”400″ height=”236″ zoom_ratio=”1.938991221″ zoom_depth_max=”3″ />

Fotolia SEO

IStock

Test image http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-224018-snail-s-100-yard-dash.php?st=5cafde5

<title>Snail’s 100 Yard Dash | Stock Photo | iStockphoto.com</title><meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ >

<meta name=”title” content=”Snail’s 100 Yard Dash | Stock Photo | iStockphoto.com” >

<meta name=”description” content=”Download a royalty-free stock photo of Snail’s 100 Yard Dash by Matthew Antonino(copyright) from iStockphoto.com.” >

<meta name=”keywords” content=”Road To Nowhere, Rat Race, Snail, Sports Race, Competition, Sayings, Ideas, Shell, Humor, Fun, Bad News, Shock, Sport, Running, Slimy, Personal Perspective, Vanishing Point, Scale, Red, Sprinting, Speed, Relay Race, Marathon, Greeting, Urgency, Angle, Attitude, Candid, mindset, The Future, Viewpoint, relativity, scape, Approaching, Strategy, Planning, stock images, royalty free images, stock photography, stock photos, inexpensive, istockphoto” >

<img id=”ZoomImage” src=”http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/224018/2/stock-photo-224018-snail-s-100-yard-dash.jpg” title=”Click on thumbnail to zoom in.” alt=”Click on thumbnail to zoom in.” style=”width:380px; height:304px; border:1px solid #E5E5E5″ /></div><div id=”ZoomDroppableDiv” style=”display:none; margin-left:10px;”>