Always Use Alt and Title Tags

by admin on 2009/09/08

Always Use Alt and Title Tags

Search engines optimization covers every aspect of your website from titles to tags and images to link text. There’s two attributes which can be used with virtually every command you use and they are the alt tag and title tag.

The alt tag stands for alternative so if you use this tag on an image and the image can’t be displayed it will display the text. The alt tag is also used to tell google what that image should represent, for example if you had an image of a vase of flowers you would label the alt text as “vase of flowers”. This helps you optimise you web-page for search terms a bit more, also use the title tag in the same way.

So for example the alt tag would be used like this
<img src=”filename” alt=”vase of flowers”>

The title tag gives you another way to optimize your page, but the title tag is displayed when a user hovers over the image of link. So I would use the title tag like this;
<img title=”£vase” src=””filename”” alt=””vase” />

If you don’t use these tags then try them out on way of your pages as they help to optimize your site and help you rank higher.

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