Alt tag???

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    What is ALT Tag?
     
    Arya Mandodi, Oct 13, 2010 IP
  2. Betty_Europe

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    #2
    alternate text for your image
    if image not loads that time that text shown.
    it's called ALT
     
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  3. leapharris

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    alt tags are alternate text shown when the browsers did not shows images, you can fill this with your keywords and make sentence eye catchy not looking spam. Google gives a good value to alt text that you entering in your web sites.
     
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    in simple terms, when the image is not loading then the text will act as description for that image. This is recommended and it will also have weightage in search results.
     
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    The ALT attribute is designed to be an alternative text description for images. The ALT tag is used by search engines to identify what the image is about. The ALT text displays before the image is loaded in a browser.
     
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    Alt tag will use for inform the image name to search engine.
     
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    yes this is correct one..
     
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    Any page image has a special optional attribute known as alternative text. It is specified using the HTML alt tag. Search engine s save the value of image ALT attributes when they index pages.
     
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    On top of what was said above, Google uses alt tags to figure out what is shown in an image (since a bot has no idea) and helps them determine what keywords your imagines should rank for on Google Image Search.

    Alt tags are also written like this:

    <img alt="describe your image here" src="http://www.website.com" />
     
    Philoon, Oct 14, 2010 IP
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    Alt tag means alternate text to the images. When crawler crawl the image, its will read image's alt tag.
     
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    The ALT tag is used to specify alternative text if the image is not available.ALT tag is used with many attributes.
     
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    Alt tags are given for the images in the web page so as if the image doesn't load, the viewer can understand of what kind the image actually was. It has some effects in ranking of a website if proper keywords are used as alt tags.
     
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    It is used for telling search engines about the images. Title tag is useful to visitors and alt tags are useful for search engines.
     
    merockysingh, Oct 15, 2010 IP
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    This is the tag which help you to provide the relevant information to search engine which you want to represent through the image on the site.
     
    fredspeech, Oct 15, 2010 IP
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    Search Engines can't Read Images, therefore no image value count. So alt Attribute provide a search engine value for your image. ALT Tag or Alternate Text can be a short description for your image. it can also be seen by moving cursor over image. mostly target keyword used in alt tag. but it should be relevant to image.
     
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    Alt tags is alternate text associated with a web page graphic that gets displayed when the Internet user use the mouse over the graphic
     
    aishaarora, Oct 15, 2010 IP
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    alt attribute is using to specify alternative text on Image.
     
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    If you just want to know the definition of alt tag, you can search google.
     
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    Alt tag attribute, is used while image optimization which comes under op-page activities. Use of ALT tag is to tag image with a link, since search engine can't read image, this is the reason why ALT tag came in effect so that SEO can define a value in search engine for particular image. By embedding an ATL tag or Alternative Text, you can put a link with some text in form of description which define your image for search engine.

    To find whether image is have an ALT tag or not, you just need to move your cursor on image.
     
    iproficientseo, Oct 15, 2010 IP
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    A HTML tag that assigns the description of an image.
     
    watsonliving, Oct 15, 2010 IP