Difference between alt and title of img for SEO?

[Marc van Leeuwen]

I've been writing my HTML for images like this:

<img src="my-image.jpg" alt="my image" >

But I recently ran a SEO tool to check images on my web pages and it reported loads of errors which I was really surprised with.

When I went through the report 99 % of these errors were because of missing image title text.

Also if you were to implement it, what would you put in there? put all alt and title in image tag?

 

[SEOPub]

I have never seen any SEO value in title attributes.

Only time I use them is when I want to do what they are designed for, provide a dialog in a popup when the image is hovered over.

Whatever SEO tool is telling you need them is probably not a tool I would continue to use.

 

[Free-SEO-Tools]

Hello,

Title tag is not so important factor to rank images on Google. If you add alt tag, then you inform the nature or content of your image to website viewers.

 

[GordonJ]

I've been writing my HTML for images like this:

<img src="my-image.jpg" alt="my image" >

But I recently ran a SEO tool to check images on my web pages and it reported loads of errors which I was really surprised with.

When I went through the report 99 % of these errors were because of missing image title text.

Also if you were to implement it, what would you put in there? put all alt and title in image tag?

Same thought with SEOPub below.

you don't need to add title tag for your images because it doesn't make SEO images better.

Focus on image name and alt tag, they are important factors to help users find out your images on Google or search engine results.

I have never seen any SEO value in title attributes.

Hello,

Title tag is not so important factor to rank images on Google.

What tag is good to ranking fro images on Google?

 

[eppcomposites]

Title tag is not important but you should use in all images. Because if any user come over on your website images so he can find the name of that image and he can understand the purpose of that image.

 

[SEOPub]

SEOPub

Why? Show me one site where it is important for a user to know the title of an image. And if a user can't understand the purpose of an image just by looking at it, then you probably picked/created a really bad image.

 

[w3master]

The image should serve the purpose, picking right image is important and title tag is also important, bcoz in search engine we search using text not the image, if the title is relavent and tagged the chances are high to get dislayed

 

[meomeo031]

Hi bro,
Alt attribute is for images and title attribute is for links. Alt has positive effect in terms of SEO and title does not.

 

[eestiman]

Ye, only 'alt' matters, in fact. But 'title' has hover effect and you can customize it.

 

[Scopehosts]

Image title provides additional information about the image and the title has to be short,catchy and precise.
Alt text is an alternative information source for those people who have chosen to disable images in their browsers.

 

[REDTC]

Filename's require keywords seperated by -

For image tag SEO you need to place keywords in your file names, like so: IMAGE-SEO-LEARNED-FROM-KRIS.JPEG
While alt tag text and keywords does NOT and should NOT use the - symbol. Thus Alt tag would be, with deliberate and important variations in wording used...Image Search Engine Optimization tags from Kris.

Bad example, but you get it....