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Adding Alt Tags to Images

By James Lynch


Alt tags aka (alt text) is used to specify text when a particular image isn't able to be shown on a website. When a visitor comes to your site and the image isn't able to be displayed, then you need to have your keyword assigned as the alt text so that users know what the image was referring to.

There are visually impaired people that surf the internet so it's especially important to make sure that you have an alt tag set to every image. There are also a lot of users that surf the internet with text only browsers and have their graphics turned off. If you don't have alt text assigned to your images then they won't know what your image was all about.

Adding an Alt Image to Html:

*Search for your image in the html tab and locate the code that says alt=" ". You need to insert your keyword for the alt image in between the quotes.

How to Add Alt Image Tags in Your Wordpress Back Office:

*Locate the upload/insert header icon in your Wordpress back office and the first box to the right will prompt you to be able to upload images.

Note: When you upload a picture from your computer in Wordpress make sure that you input your alt tag (keyword) where you see "Alternate Text."

*If you forget, don't worry. You can also manually input alt tags under the html tab in Wordpress.

Alternate tags are just one of the important steps to proper on-page seo.

Other important on-page Search Engine Optimization factors include:

*Internal links with in your site, proper site font decoration, proper use of alt image tags, keyword in description, keyword in url, keyword in title, and keyword in header tag.

Off-page seo is just as important as on-page search engine optimization.

Important off-page search engine optimization factors include:

*Google index count, page backlinks, domain backlinks, .edu/.gov backlinks, DMOZ directory listing, Yahoo directory listing, domain age, and page rank.

Just missing one of these steps above could mean the difference between your content showing on the first page of the search engines or never showing at all. It's important to realize that both off-page and on-page seo plays an important role in achieving top search engine rankings.




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