what is alt tag

m a student of seo and we want to know about alt tag

 

ALT is not a Tag, this is an attribute of the IMG Tag. For details visit HTML Tutorial.

 

Alt tag is a alternative text it used in image when the image not show on your webpage then Alt tag show.

ex:<img src="baroda.gif" alt="baroda direct" />

 

alt tag is a attribute of a image tag.

 

alt attribute should be used to describe the image. So if you have an image of a big wooden chair you should use the alt tag that best describes it, which is alt="big wooden chair."

 

In HTML 4.01, the attribute is required for the img and area tags.

 

Well this is a attribute of a image tag.

 

It is an alternative text for the image.

 

don't confuse the guy now! lol

 

ALT tags are basically image descriptions within a website. You can attach text to an image to describe it so that Search Engines can also find it. ALT descriptions help you rank higher in search engines.

 

Best answer!
But I am not too sure about the ALT descriptions helping a website to rank higher in search engines. It is part of on-page SEO though.

 

hi ranjna,

actually alt="" is an attribute of the img tag.

the search engines are not able to detect any images, so to make them understand alt="" tag is used which let's them to understand what is image is all about.

<img src="_images/abhishek-kundu.gif" alt="abhishek kundu" /> 

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hope this will help you to clear your doubts.

 

The ALT attribute is designed to be an alternative text description for images. ALT text displays before the image is loaded (if it's loaded at all) in the major browsers and instead of the image in text-based browsers like Lynx. ALT is a required element for images and can only be used for image tags because its specific purpose is to describe images.

 

yes it is an image tags's alternate tag tha is used for alternate text for any image.

 

Alt is not a tag its only image attribute..

 

"alt" is an attribute used in<img> tag. By using this tag you can specify a name for the image and by the time the image get loaded on your page the user can see the alt text there so that user don't get frustrated by loading speed also it is useful from SEO perspective as a web crawler or spider doesn't read an image it just renders text only thus putting your keywords in alt attribute can help you from SEO perspective as well.

 

Alt tag is actually for images that makes search engines able to read the image as text. Usually image is not considered important to search engines. When you put you want use your site's keyword and apply alt tag then the text is read easily through search engine's eyes.

 

Alt tag menas title for the images. You can uses targeted keywords in the alt tag then it will help you to get ranking for that perticular keywords

 

basically, alt attribute used to describe the image.

 

Alt is Image attribute.