For fear of being considered spam, would anyone add an alt tag to an image that is already described. I am optimizing a site that lists and shows pictures of their products. I would like to add an alt tag to the images, but i'm afraid that the double listing of each product (which all contain the main keyword) would be considered spam by the SE's Any comments would be appreciated
Just describe the image as best you can. ALT tag was really designed for people who turn images off on their browsers and other types of browsers that only display text, as well as "impaired" type browsers. There are lots of ways to actually describe the image without spamming, but dropping in various types of keywords, LSI style.
i remember reading someplace that in order to take advantage of 'alt tags' the text also needs to be someplace else on the page. Is this correct or in order to take advantage of SEO can the 'alt tag' be the only place the text is mentioned.