Alt tag importance

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by site-me, Mar 12, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I optimize our site on page. I make all images in css i give no "ALT" tag is alt tag important if this is important than how we give alt tag in div. any one help.
     
    site-me, Mar 12, 2011 IP
  2. johnmat

    johnmat Member

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    ALt tag is very useful for a website which has no text contains, but if your website is having enough text content then there is no worry about alt tag.
     
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    YES.. it is very important..
     
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  4. iamolm

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    Yes, Alt Tag is very important in SEO because Alt Tag is assign as a description of an images.

    Cheers,
    :cool:
     
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  5. edge83

    edge83 Active Member

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    use the keyword the page is targeting in at least a few of the "alt" tags - it matters enough for the extremely small amount of time it takes.
     
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    ALT Tag specifies an alternate text for image and these are filled with keywords that can be used to boost your keyword frequency.. So that your images will also be optimized for Google or Yahoo image search and helps to achieve better rankings..
     
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  7. ForgottenCreature

    ForgottenCreature Notable Member

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    The alt tag helps you rank on Google images and tells people what the image is about.
     
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    Hello Guys.......
     
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  9. Kiranraj

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    #9
    Optimized images with the alt tag with the targeted keywords....
     
    Kiranraj, Mar 14, 2011 IP
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    Alt Tag is very important for image optimization as it is used to provide description to the images which help website to come in image search result
     
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    yes, alt tag is very important.
     
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    #12
    Alt Tag is important, google uses it as part of SEO especially if your site isn't word dense.
     
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    Ya Google gives importance to Alt tag, we can use our keywords on Alt tag, it will be very beneficial for your website..
     
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    #14
    If you want to know how much Image Alt Tag helps to improve search engine ranking.

    visit here Image Alt Tag

    Cheers,
    :cool:
     
    iamolm, Mar 14, 2011 IP
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    Alt tag is very important in SEO. The most important function of an ALT tag is to explain to a new user what an image is displaying.
     
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  16. johneva

    johneva Well-Known Member

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    Right, yes alt attributes are very important not just for search engines for for visitors who have images disabled, which is the actual purpuse for the attribute.

    You only need to worry about the alt attribute for images that are inserted with the img tag though, any layout images that are done with CSS are not really so important to be honest, the idea of the alt attribute is simple if the page would normally show an image with a red car on it then when a user who has images turned off or using a browser that does not support displaying images then they need to know that normally there is an image of a red car.

    Its more of an accessability issue, but as the search engines want sites that concider the user and have actually put the effort into accessability, userbility, loading times ect, it does also benifit search engines, the bots that read sites dont read images so if you have added the alt attribute then atleast they know what the image is of.
     
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    #17
    Your alt tags are important with image optimization for searches on google images.
     
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    The crawler of google reads only text matter. Images are ignored. If you have images on your website then alt tag in it enables the crawler to read it.
     
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    #19
    Hello Friend,

    Yes, alt tags are very important , because alt tags give keywords density in proper way.
     
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    #20
    google robot is usually search for alt tag, if the site is constructed with more images or flash
     
    RSureash, Mar 15, 2011 IP