What is use of ALT-tags in SEO ?

[ankitasharma123]

Hello friends,

I want to know that What is use of ALT-tags in SEO ?

[seo147]

u include images in your articles to get people to read your text. Well-chosen images also strengthen your message. You shouldn’t forget to give those images good alt attributes: alt tags and title tags strengthen the message towards search engine spiders and improve the accessibility of your website. In this post I’ll explain all about alt tags and title tags and why you should optimize those.

The term “alt tag” is a commonly used abbreviation of wha’ts actually an alt attribute on an img tag. Every time you have an image in your text, the alt tag should describe what’s on the image. Screen readers for the blind and visually impaired will read out this text and thus make your image accessible.

What are alt tags and title tags?

This is a complete HTML image tag:

<img src="image.jpg" alt="image description" title="image tooltip"/>
The alt and title attributes of an image are commonly referred to as alt tag or alt text and title tag even though they’re not technically tags. The alt text describes what’s on the image and the function of the image on the page. So if you have an image that’s used as a button to buy product X, the alt text would say: “button to buy product X”.

The alt tag is used by screen readers, the browsers used by blind and visually impaired people, to tell them what is on the image. The title attribute is shown as a tooltip when you hover over the element, so in case of an image button, the button could contain an extra call-to-action, like “Buy product X now for $19!”.

Each image should have an alt text. Not just for SEO purposes but also because blind and visually impaired people otherwise won’t know what the image is for. A title attribute is not required. It can be useful but in most cases, leaving it out shouldn’t be much of an issue.

[vikassinha1992]

Alt tags are used to describe images to search engines. Alt tags will increase the chance of search engines returning your images in search results.

[jagdishrock]

Alt tags were you can type your keywords which help to get good ranking in Google search engine

[anna91]

Originally Posted by ankitasharma123

Hello friends,

I want to know that What is use of ALT-tags in SEO ?

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[eumaxindia]

Spider does not read the images,so we are using alt tag and define image name here easy to identify google spider....

[johnalandil]

ALT-tag can help google know what are you talking about and so it can help you in SEO.

[titas132]

Alt tag help the user to understand the image. If the image don't load properly the browser shows the alt text. It is very important term in SEO.

[Carlbrewster]

Originally Posted by ankitasharma123

Hello friends,

I want to know that What is use of ALT-tags in SEO ?

Alt tags are alternate tags which tells users about what this image is. If your internet is slow it will take time to load image completely so in that case with the help of alt tag user can get the information about the image.

[veraajverma]

If you site takes time in loading then the alt tag is the best way to get the information about the images. It tell user about what is this image so that user can decide whether to stay on the webpage or quit.

[Nura]

Search engine crawls the ALT image tag fast if it as a proper name

[Satya123]

Alt tag means to upload any image in your website search engine cann't index or read images so for search engine indexing purpose we use alt tag. In alt tag we mention about image details(Title).

[Hardik_tiwari]

Google doesn't able to read the content of your image, so to define your image you need to mention ALT tag.

[leenahahim]

alt tag is for describing the image.. it will appear when touching the cursor in to the image.

[Mohammed abbas]

Alt text is an effective way of telling Google the topic of the page and therefore giving it an extra boost in search rankings.

Therefore if a page is about Snoopy, then it will be of SEO benefit to include an image of the lovable cartoon character with alt text as ‘alt= “snoopy”’.

That said, it’s not a good idea to repeatedly use the same alt text so try to mix it up and ensure that the alt attribute is relevant to that particular image.