Optimizing for Image Search With Alt Attributes

Posted by Webnauts under Online Marketing
From http://blog.webnauts.net 5191 days ago

SEO doesn’t begin and end with the text on your web pages. If your website has images, these should also be optimized in order to help with your overall page rank as to help your site appear in image searches, which are an increasingly popular application.

It all has to do with the alt tags you use for the images on your site.

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Written by ShawnHessinger
5191 days ago

Great post and helpful info for anyone who hasn't really even thought much about the Alt attribute and how to use it. I think that the advice on "stuffing" here is good but must be taken in context. There is a difference between using keywords already used throughout the rest of your content and using keywords or phrases that explain the relationship of the photo to the rest of the content in your online document. Using the keywords "small bricks and mortar business" for a photo of your Uncle Ed standing in front of his place of business would probably be better than "Uncle Ed at Store, Shot 5", for example, in a blog post about small business.

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