SEO and Images

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    Fairly simple question....maybe not such a simple answer, we'll see...

    When it comes to your images and setting them up for SEO...I know you will benefit if you have the alt and title added to the picture...For example alt="xxxx" title="xxxx".....

    Now my question is...When it comes to the alt and title of the photos....How should they be displayed....

    For example lets say i have a picture which i am calling "Nike Dunk Sneakers".....Should my alt and title say "Nike Dunk Sneakers" with spaces or should it say "Nike-Dunk-Sneakers" with the dashes inbetween the words?...Or should it say "Nike_Dunk_Sneakers" with underscores?

    Or does it not matter either way, aslong as a popper alt and title are added?
     
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  2. ~DaRk-EyE~

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    #2
    I'll go with "Nike Dunk Sneakers"...
    As much as possible make your alt and title attributes natural...
    The other samples looks spammy for me...
     
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  3. 2 FN LOW

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    I am asking cause i have a plugin with adds the alt and title according to the filename...However, eventhough i save the files with spaces and not dashes the plugin keeps adding the dashes....Great plugin for Wordpress, it just has the one draw back...I personally dont like the dashes myself, just looks sloppy....

    Also, when looking through google images i have noticed all the picture names have spaces, and not dashes...so that made me feel that dashes are no good in the alt and title for an image....

    My pictures all have original names...none of them are the same, they all are different in a way, even if its only a 1 word difference
     
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  4. pchieng

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    Yeah, I'd go with the non-dashes, but try to be as descriptive as possible with more keywords probably. But not too much as to sound spammy..
     
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  5. trichnosis

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    alt="xxxx" value be will used for anchor txt
     
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  6. Dan Schulz

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    Ok, first off this isn't an SEO question. It's an HTML question that happens to have an (albeit small) impact on SEO.

    The alt="" attribute is used to provide a textual equivilent of the image. Say for example you have a picture of a litter of 6 week old Irish Jack Russell Terriers. The alt="" attribute for that image would read "litter of Irish Jack Russell terriers" since that's what the image is. If you want to include a brief description of the image, you can use the title="" attribute. In this case it would read something like "These adorable six-week old Irish Jack Russell Terrier puppies will soon be available for adoption." If you want a longer description, you'd link to a separate page with a more detailed description of the image using the longdesc="" attribute.

    And to answer your other question, use spaces for the alt and title attribute values - they have to be human readable, afterall.
     
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