Why do i use alt tags for image in S.E.O?

Hi guys i want to know why do we use alt tags for image in search engine optimization. What is it's reason. Do search engine not read image? I am waiting for your answer.

 

Alt Tag gives search engines information about the images. Search engines cannot read the content of the image (or some text in the image), so you write a description in the ALT tag.

 

Alt tag is useful because you can add a description of the image in it. The idea is to help users - for example blind users are not able to see the image and they need a description. For search engines also is important to "understand" what do you have on the image. Do not overcoem with alt tags - one of the well known bh techniques is to fill alt tag with tons of keywords - just use simple description of the image

 

Yep, as a I've alt tags are used to describe what is in an image and can contain your target keywords or at least part of them to add focus to your site.

 

Hi...

Alt tag also called as img tag, is textual information related to a graphic image to indicate its relevancy and avoid indexing problems. The thing is that search engines don’t perceive websites the way we do. They cannot read images, that’s why it is important to use ALT tags to tell the search engine spiders what this or that picture is about.

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ALT is actually an attribute of image tag in html. Text or say keywords mentioned in alt attribute of image may help user/visitor to know which image is about at particular page in case of image is not loading or image is missing. Also text in alt attribute help search engine to understand what is that image about. So use alt in image its GOOD!!!

 

hey,
Search engines can not identify the image by themselves so ALT tags are used to suggest the search engine about the images.

 

The more you list the key definitions in the al tag to the image the more traffic you get from images.google.com.

If you do not describe the pictures that your images will appear in the search for images.

 

Search engines use alt tags to relate with them. They cannot read the images, yes. But they use these alt tag values to understand what the images are for.

 

Alt tag also called as img tag, is textual information related to a graphic image to indicate its relevancy and avoid indexing problems.

 

Search engine only can read html format so with the help of alt tag search engine can read information about image which you provide in alt tag...

 

Be clever and use the alt tags to include some of your keywords.

 

Because search engine is a Bot that cannot be known what image you use, what color you use and what script use etc.
So we use alt tag, This tag tells image information to Search engine and search engine crawl it your image.

 

Alt Tags are like Keywords for images, a better way of saying it is anchor text for the image.

Example

I have an image of a balloon on my website I give it the alt tag of "Cars" (Completely different). If I hyperlink it the anchor will be "Cars" however, If not hyperlinked then if people search "Cars" in google images, it may come up with your balloon image..

 

Alt tags are "alternative text" for your images. It's important your images have these in case the images fail to load, these tags will be displayed instead. You can have your target keywords in your alt tags too if they are appropriate to the image.