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Image Alt tag SEO

What is Image Alt tag?

• Images Alt Tags are used to write the text on images if the images not readable by search engines.

• Use the alt attribute to provide descriptive text to help visitors who can’t see the images Or If a user is viewing your site on a browser that doesn’t support images, the contents of the alt attribute provide information about the picture.

• Optimizing images is more important in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for websites.

• When you write the text for the image. Be careful … it should be contains your keywords that describe your image and take the same information or go to the same purpose that the image would.

• If the image contains text too long I advise to use a summary of this text to display for images alt tags so it should be short.

Image Search Engine Optimization Tips:

• You can use hyphens in the file name to separate the keyword, but Avoid to exceeding two hyphens.
• Avoid used underscores as a separator for example (family_school.jpg).

Now go and start in these steps for all images in search engines to rank better in all engines and more traffic to your site.

November 6, 2009 - Posted by ashwaq1986 | Search Engine Optimization | , , | 1 Comment

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