Regarding Alt Text

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by sutisoft123, Sep 26, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hi,


    I am updating my site. So, my question is which method is a good practice, whether to give alt text to particular keyword or briefly explanation of that keyword i.e., only 1 line.


    Example:


    XYZ Keyword: Alt text that describes XYZ Keyword


    or


    XYZ Keyword: A brief explanation of the XYZ keyword in one line.


    Which one is good practice.


    Thanking U in Advance......
     
    sutisoft123, Sep 26, 2012 IP
  2. isha189

    isha189 Member

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    Use your targeted keyword as alt text.
     
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  3. OSSEO

    OSSEO Active Member

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    #3
    don't use too much keywords. use your targeted keyword in decent way.
     
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  4. SEO Haven

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    Keep it short (under 160 characters) and include keyword/phrase
     
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  5. Gretish

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    ALT tags are alternative text that can be displayed instead of an image if a visitor to your website cannot view the images in their browser.
     
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  6. Mr.Dog

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    Not much worth bothering with today.

    I recommend you to avoid using keywords in most of your alt texts. Use related phrases, words, but vary them much.
     
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  7. govind sharan

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    Hi,


    I am updating my site. So, my question is which method is a good practice, whether to give alt text to particular keyword or briefly explanation of that keyword i.e., only 1 line.


    Example:


    XYZ Keyword: Alt text that describes XYZ Keyword


    or


    XYZ Keyword: A brief explanation of the XYZ keyword in one line.


    Which one is good practice.


    Thanking U in Advance......[/QUOTE]

    First one is best.
     
    govind sharan, Sep 27, 2012 IP
  8. JohnKets

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    As you know that search engine's crawlers do not have power of seeing. So the purpose of Alt tag is to provide the description of Image in words. So you can use your targeted keywords in alt tags.
     
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  9. Jesse12

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    Hello

    Basically alt tag is used to define the image properly, but sometimes we can use our keyword to maintain our density and other things which is necessary to rank your website.

    So first try to define your image then keyword. Hope this will useful for you.
     
    Jesse12, Sep 27, 2012 IP
  10. stepbystep

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    Use phrase that is related to image by this method some keywords automatically appear in the phrase.
     
    stepbystep, Sep 27, 2012 IP