Thursday, 9 February 2012

How to Add Alt Tags to Images

By James Lynch


Alt tags are used to specify alternative text (alt text) when images are not able to be shown on a website. So if a reader comes to your site and your image isn't displayed, then it's important to have your keyword assigned as the alt text to show the content that's being displayed.

There are visually impaired people that surf the internet so it's especially important to make sure that you have an alt tag set to every image. There are also a lot of users that surf the internet with text only browsers and have their graphics turned off. If you don't have alt text assigned to your images then they won't know what your image was all about.

How to Add and Alt Image to Html:

*Find your image in the html tab and look for the code that says alt=" ". In between the quotes is the place where you want to input your keyword for the alt image.

How to Add Alt Image Tags to Images in Wordpress:

*In your Wordpress back office you'll notice an icon that says upload/insert and this is where you'll be able to upload an image.

Note: When you upload pictures from your computer to your Wordpress back office, it's critical that you input your alt tag in the spot that says "Alternate Text."

If you forget to enter your alt tags when uploading your picture, don't worry. You can manually input it under the html tab in Wordpress.

Alternate tags are just one of the major factors to proper on-page seo.

Other critical on-page search engine optimization factors include:

*Keyword in description, keyword in url, keyword in title, keyword in header tag, internal links with in your site, proper site font decoration, and proper use of alt image tags.

Even though on-page seo is important, off-page seo is just as important.

Important off-page search engine optimization factors include:

*DMOZ directory listing, Yahoo directory listing, domain age, page rank, Google index count, page backlinks, domain backlinks, and page.edu/.gov backlinks.

If you miss out on just one of the steps above then you just may miss out on achieving first page search engine rankings. Both on-page and off-page seo play an important role towards getting your content on the first page of Google.




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