I read on various place how alt tag for images is important,so i have it on all my images.But also i know how it is also important to have all content visible to your visitors.Google bot reads alt tag and it's content using it for ranking on serps.To gain better on site optimization,i thinking about converting alt tag description to real text description which will be visible on site.But then i will have duplicate text,one in alt tag and on as text description.Should i remove alt tag from every picture then?I going to do add those descriptions beacuse that will increase clicks,it's not same when visitor watches picture without any description and when he see what he will get when he click on picture.
Yes the title tag is very important but you should still use the alt tag every chance you get. Especially if you have many pictures on you site.
Well having the same text in alt and also the real text wont hurt you and also these are just minor factors for deciding SERPs in search engines.
It's mostly important for Google Image search. Although you won't gain as much traffic through this as you would a direct article link from high-ranking in Google's SERPS for keywords, plenty of people do use Google's image search and it would be small, constant hits to your site for that image.
Alt attribute can also help your keyword to push higher in search result page. This could also help the human visitor to identify the image when it does not load properly.
I agree. How much does it help? No one really knows. The trick is to watch those sites that are outranking you and do all the little things that they do. Bompa
I think its effective by 2 reasons! 1). Google reads it as content 2). how you feel! if you also get traffic from Google images.
though not a major ranking factor anymore, the alt tag does help contribute to your overall keyword density on any given page. I could be wrong, but what's a few minutes of time invested in something that can also benefit your images optimization efforts?
ALT Tags is important for your Images which is A HTML tag that assigns the description of an Images. Alt tags help some visually impaired visitors who need to use text readers to understand a page format and so should be used. They can't see the images, but can detect text in ALT tags. In addition to this they also help you rank better with search engines.
The best way I heard it described is that many on-site factors by themselves have little importance. However, if all aspects of your site match, it becomes very relevant.
yes its important... read this : http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2005/08/15/how-important-is-alt-text-in-search-engine-optimization
You should put as many text as possible with relevant keywords because bots see your site as lynx browser does, so alt tags ARE important
very important. from my experience same important as text and it promotes image search on google that may lead to new visitors as well