seo in images (title tags, alt tags, etc)

Ok, how do i get the most seo value out of an image?

I heard alt="keywords" is very important. Is title="keywords" also important?

What more can you do for seo?

 

I think alt is better to search engine.

 

title tags carries more weight than alt tags..

in doing on-page optimization, including your KWs in titles, headers and anchor text could help you in terms of ranking in SERPs

 

I believe that if you want search engine to find all your images, alt tags are enough.

 

You should use alt for images and title for links:

<img src="img1.jpg" alt="describe image, use keywords">

<a href="page1.html" title="describe link, use keywords">

 

Yes, use these tags, alt for image and title for anchor.

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According to w3c your alt tag should not be missing in code. Alt is associated with image and title is associated with hyperlink. Therefore you should use alt tag in image. if you do not want to use keywords, you can have it blank but must put as alt="".

 

Nice... Thanks dtm... This is the right way to use alt and title for images.

 

dont kw stuff them though - it is spammy and will get discounted, or even penalised

 

Hi,

Title tag and Alt tag are very important as far as SEO is concerned. Title attributes are used to describe text links and Alt attributes are used to describe image links. Both are not only used for search engine purpose but also for easy accessibility.ALT tags are very useful when employed correctly and these tags are displayed if the browser cannot display images and also explain the image to the search engines.

 

Have you tried the "Enable enhanced image search" within Google Webmaster Tools.

To opt in to enhanced image search:

1. Sign into Google webmaster tools with your Google Account.
2. Click the URL for the site you want.
3. Click Tools, and then click Enable enhanced image search.

Once you have opted in to enhanced image search, you can opt out at any time by returning to this page and clearing the checkbox.

 

SE can't read Image.. so you must use alt attribute in image tag for the description on it.....

 

You should use alt tags to describe the contents of image. It is alternative text description for images. ALT text gets displayed before the image is loaded.

title tags is used to describe links.

 

Yes using the alt tags on images and anchor text, it is helpful to rankings.

 

thanks for your posts.

 

I always use these tags on the images of my site. Here's a good article that I have read before when I started out optimizing my site's images:
http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624327

 

http://seo.gotwebhost.com/optimizing-for-image-search/

 

Although you are all correct, you should check out the Google God's own code http://www.google.com/webmasters/

<div id="header"> <a href="http://www.google.com"><img src="http://www.google.com/images/logo_sm.gif" width="150" height="55" class="left" alt="Google" title="Google"></a>

<h1>Google Webmaster Central </h1>
</div>​

It seems that they use both. Humm...