As far as I know, Chris, alt tags are there for the accessibility of
images. I suppose the search engines might look at them but no one
has ever advised me to put alt tags for SEO. Rather they are there
for when an image is slow in loading or for people who cannot see the
page and have to rely on the alt tag for the description.
But I might be wrong ... I suppose :-)
Chris
On 5 Jun 2009, at 10:58, Chris Crawford wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Make sure also that every image has an alt tag. This is a written
> description (not a list of keywords!) of what the photo depicts. My
> website
> has a story under each photo, but got few people asking to purchase
> things
> the first 5 yrs I had the site. Three yrs ago I spent months adding
> alt tags
> to all of the 800 photos the site had at the time, and when I add
> something
> new I put in alt tags on the new stuff. Sales skyrocketed. Last year I
> earned half of my income from sales off my site. Admittedly, my
> income is
> still very low, but things are getting better every year on my website
> sales. Make sure also that each page has a title that describes in a
> few
> words what the page shows. Page titles and alt tags are more
> important than
> text on the page for search engines to find images.
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