ALT Tags

What are ALT tags and why should I use them?

Search engines can not index images or the text on them, therefore images such as your logo will not play a factor in your search engine optimization efforts. To remedy this, there are ALT tags, which are descriptions of images in text format.

You must use ALT tags to ensure that search engines see extra content on your site. Alt tags filled with keywords will help you in gaining higher rankings by increasing your keyword frequency.

Although we never, ever, condone using spamming techniques, search engines have not been known for penalizing for "stuffing" them with keywords. We're not telling you this to encourage spamming the search engines because we know that the negative effects it can cause. This is just informational. Do not repeat your keywords more than 3-7 times.

ALT tags makes it possible for the the visually impaired using text readers to read the tag of the images on your pages.

ALT tags:

• Describe images


• Add keywords to site text


• Should be used for each image


• Make sites accessible to the visually impaired

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