Hi guys. I'm not sure how to use alt tags for SEO. And where, exactly. On basic html sites. Any help appreciated. Thanks. I tried to search the forums with the same phrase, but I kept getting the meggage to use 3 or more words???????
Yeah I hate that, when I'm trying to search for "IE"... it doesn't matter how many letters the other words are. : ) ALT text is "alternative text" that takes the place of an HTML (not CSS background) image if it can't be seen. Now, there are a lot of people who believe the the alt text should say whatever the image is "saying". I'd rather just tell people what the image is of (unless it's an image containing text in order to have a funky font) and make sure any "content" conveyed by the image is in the normal text of the page. So, you have an article about bunnies, just overal bunnies, and a photo of 5 bunnies with the article because otherwise the article looks dull. In this case, I'd make the photo a background image but most people don't. So some people would say, "text about bunnies, la la la..." "Bunnies are soft and come in many colours." "more text in the article about bunnies, la la la..." The "Bunnies are soft and come in many colours" is the replacement for a photo of bunnies of different colours or something. Now me, I say "Photo of 5 bunnies" and make sure my normal text says "Bunnies are soft and come in many colours." But that's me. I don't think images should be conveying information that the regular content isn't. To set ALT text, if you don't know: <img src="blah.com/images/bunnies.jpg" width="100" height="150" alt="Bunnies are soft and come in many colours."> Or an XHTML ending if you're using XHTML: ...and come in many colours." />
In dreamweaver select ur image and in the properties there will be ALT option u can write ur alt tag there. In frontpage, select image > properties (right click) > under general tab > alternative representation > text (type ur query)
You can use something like this. <html> . . <body> <img src="url_to_img.here" [B]alt="Alternate Text here"[/B] /> Code (markup):