Defining ALT Tags

ALT Tags

Alt Tags stands for Alternative tags. They are also known as alt text or alt attributes, and are simply used as an alternative for the images. To make an image appear on a web page we simply use

< img  src = " imagename.jpg ">

Using this source code we are making a view to see the image when he loads that web page.

But what about the search engines?

They are not like human that can see and describe the image, for this purpose alt tags are used. Therefore the source code now become

< img alt="About Image" src="imagename.jpg">

Apart from helping search engines to understand your images, you are also helping some categories of viewer in the better understanding of the web page. For example a viewer with low bandwidth connection, or to a person who has disabled his graphic uploading. They can simply read the text in 'alt tag' and can get a idea about the image that they are not able to see.

Professionals providing SEO Services take this part very seriously, because we can get great ranking by smartly using keywords in these alt tags. The only thing to keep in mind is we should use the recourse effectively instead of spamming.

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