Why ALT Text is Important in SEO?

[Dmoz]

Hi friends,

I've heard more webmasters said that alt text was very important for SEO and especially when we do SEO for images. but why Alt Text is important ? can you tell me why ?

thanks

 

[accountingguru]

Seo have included their important keyword phrases in ALT text images. so search engine contain the our keyword as alt text . So its goods for seo

 

[Dmoz]

Dmoz

It's common reason why alt text is important for seo. has it got any other factors which makes alt text is important ? any one has other ideas ?

 

[Mark I. Bentz]

Mark I. Bentz

ALT text only for keyword? Can we use href for diverting traffic on our site with making hyper link on our keyword?

 

[JoshuaRoss]

'Alternative text' to an image is merely a text that we increase the image qualities so that it may be found in certain situations. You might have realized that an alternate text is shown up for a specific picture whenever your Web connection appears to have problems or when the pictures are made of through the browser. In either case, it's often a good idea to include an alternate (alt) details about the pictures.

 

[OscarMcDowell]

OscarMcDowell

I completely and totally agree with you. Alt text provides information about the image as well as the help crawling image easily.

 

[BloodMaster]

well, the alt attribute is listed in google's guidelines and therefore if you want to walk along the google's guidelines then you should probably use it. Using alt attribute makes search engines understand what the image is all about and therefore if anyone searches for that description which you give in, google displays your image. Its a part of image optimization technique. So if you want to get traffic from image searches, you should probably optimize your image. And for the length of the attribute, well, you should keep it as short as possible but make sure you don't add pure keywords in the tags or descriptions.

 

[aishasony]

Google bot can't crawl the image and in Google guidelines or in W3C guidelines alt tag is specified in image tag.Google crawl the text that's why we place the alt tag in image tag so that google recognise which image is placed

 

[aksel]

Alt text is important to SEO because it gives more space to SEO so that the google don't penalize you.