How important the alt tag?

20 Dec

Posted by xBrain as google

How important the alt tag on each picture or photos that you put on your blog?

Matt Cutt’s made an easy to understand video on how important the alt tag for each picture that you want to be displayed on your post. Matt made a very good explanation on how to optimize the ALT attributes.

Act now if you did not utilize the ALT attributes before. Google can easily index your picture with this tag as Matt said in the video, computer is not a human that knows the picture is a cat..Huhu

Update: Some of you have asked about the difference between the “alt” and “title” attributes. According to the W3C recommendations, the “alt” attribute specifies an alternate text for user agents that cannot display images, forms or applets. The “title” attribute is a bit different: it “offers advisory information about the element for which it is set.” As the Googlebot does not see the images directly, we generally concentrate on the information provided in the “alt” attribute. Feel free to supplement the “alt” attribute with “title” and other attributes if they provide value to your users!