what is alt tag

[kmkhyd2014]

what is alt tag recently i have started a new web site one some one was suggesting me to use alt tag.can an one tell me how to use alt tag

 

[pryidevsblog]

Take a time and search around the forum. As far as I know there is a thread which is addressing the same information what you are looking for. Follow the thread link.

http://www.ewebdiscussion.com/searc...f-alt-tags-in-search-engine-optimization.html

First thing is you have to keep in mind Alt is not a tag it's an attribute of IMG tag. Alt is used to optimized image. Through Alt search engine crawlers knows about image. And provide you the specific image on image search.

 

[rashidajones]

The alt attribute is used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered.

 

[samm1973]

Exactly what rashidajones said. Not to be confused with a picture's title which shows on hover. Honestly though, many times I'll make it the same. I don't know if that's considered bad form or not?

 

[abhayhendre]

Alt tag is a way to tell search engines what a particular image is about. Search engines cannot understand the content in images. So we need to use alt tag to tell them that the image is about a particular topic.
Ex.: if you have an image of a software, you can use an alt tag like alt="name of the software"
You can also use relevant keywords in alt tag if you want.

 

[rustycatter]

Alt tag is used in HTML for the purpose of Google crawling. While Google crawls your web page it reads only text.

 

[pryidevsblog]

@rustycatter and @abhayhendre You both are really sure that Alt is tag????

 

[meetbhardwaj309]

The alt attribute is used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered.

 

[pryidevsblog]

The alt attribute is used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify alternative text (alt text) that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered.

Why you are copy and paste rashidajones's thread. Don't understand why people are doing such a thing.

 

[anirban09P]

Alt tag is a way to tell search engines what a particular image is about. An HTML attribute specified in the IMG tag to provide alternate text when an image on a Web page cannot be displayed.

 

[sarvodyaseo]

ALt tag is very important tag which is use for image name. basically tal tag is used for increase the keyword density.

 

[ChristinaCa]

HTML attribute specified in the Tag to provide alternate text when an image on a Web page cannot be displayed.

 

[zeoafer]

An HTML attribute specified in the IMG tag to provide alternate text when an image on a Web page cannot be displayed.
Example: < img alt="This is the image description (ALT TAG)" src="link" >

 

[sonikathakur]

ALT Tag is used for image optimization in search engine optimization because major search engine can not read image so if we insert a image in our web page than we put alt tag with that to describe the image..

 

[AvniShergill]

Images are not read by Google so Alt tag is used to tell the Google what your image is about. Alt tag increases the chances of ranking your image in SERP.

 

[koyal]

alt attribute used for images and we should use our keyword on that.

 

[alexbarry]

alt tag provide alternate text when an image on a Web page cannot be displayed.

 

[Roseanne Hortense]

ALT Tags are invisible descriptions of images which are read aloud to blind users on a screen reader.

 

[nightqueen321]

Alt tag mainly used for the crawler which provides the completes information about the particular images on the page.

 

[Rashi Aggarwal]

Alt tags convey in text available to screen readers the information presented with images and other non-text objects on a page. Alt tags are typically used to identify pictures and are typically relatively brief. So I will probaly say A.