Recently I saw a few sites that had some of my gif/pics in their posts. The image is clickable and links to an upload file on my site. Will this kind of link increase seo for site overall? Looks pretty natural to me
good links to build. Such links treated by google as natural mostly ( only if they are not used as part of big spamming strategy). They can bring some trust and diversify your backlink profile, but will not give boost to your keys.
They're as powerful as their source is. Also the alt and title texts, if set correctly, will serve almost as a text link. Plus Google can read into images these days. So 100% legit links.
Agreed with @bartosimpsonio . This is a good way to get links and you are getting it without investing any time
Basically, 1 articles with 500+ words are nearly equal to 1 powerful picture. Because it looks natural and it what Google wants. So you can go for it on your site.
Search engines not only crawl the text on your webpage, but they also search for keywords within your image file names.I think you have not realized yet,images could bring tons of traffic to your site.
It's one of the best practices so you should keep a mixture of both images and text. And yes it does help in SEO
