How to chose file names for pages and images?

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Question: How to chose file names for pages and images to improve SEO as much as possible?

Most of us have some ideas there, or rather should.

My own strategy there is verry simple:
- index.* files must stay named that way unless you want to play with Apache configuration and htaccess
- for other pages: if they are manually created pages (as opposed to dynamically generated), use

• lower-case only, no accent or spoecial characters
• keywords separated by hyphens/ minus "-" (some would prefer to use underscores "_ ", I don't)
• more than 3-4 keywords is probably a waste

- same for pages structures and directories
- if possible, do the same for relevant images / pictures: not thos used for decoragion and style, but thos used to illustrate a post and add information: naming the pictures files with dashed-keywords is an important tool since it will help tour SEO on several fronts:

• for images alone, your keyworded images will score high on any image-search with these keywords
• on regular Google searches, chances are high that your images will score high too and them give you some additional exposure will pushing down competitors.

What is YOUR strategy for these?

All of us are currently making a scary useless place of this list, by not really adding value, and thus bringing in few interested / interesting people.

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