Alt Tags
Alt tags are used to specify alternative text (alt text) when images are not able to be shown on a website. So if a reader comes to your site and your image isn’t displayed, then it’s important to have your keyword assigned as the alt text to show the content that’s being displayed.
There are a lot people that surf the internet that have text-only browsers and have their graphics turned off . That’s why it’s important to assign an alt tag to your images so that these users will know what your content is about. Assigning alt text is especially important to those who are visually impaired.
Lets’ take the picture below for instance. I have the alt text as “alt tags” because that’s the keyword that I’m writing content about. If I had the same image set to “alttgs123″ instead, the reader would have no clue what that means.
Another reason why images might not show on a website may be due to slow page loading, depending on how many graphics are on the site.
How to Add Alt Tags to Html:
<span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong><img title=”No Alt Tag” src=”No Image Here” alt=”Put Alt Tag Here“ width=”250″ height=”250″ />
</strong></span>
*Note: Find your image in the html tab and find the code that says alt=” “. In the quotes is where you want to input your keyword for the alt image.
How to Add Alt Tags to images in WordPress:
Note: In WordPress go to the Upload/Insert header when starting a new post or page and the first box to the right will allow you to upload an image like you see above.
Note: You’ll see this picture 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. See html example above.
Alt tags are a form of on-page seo and following the proper on-page search engine optimization techniques is extremely important if you want your content to show on the first page of the search engines. Alternate tags are just one of the major factors to proper on-page seo.
Other important on-page Search Engine Optimization factors include:
*Adding rel=”nofollow” to external links
*Proper site font decoration
*Internal links with in your site
*Keyword in title
*Keyword in url
*Keyword in Description
*Keyword in header tag
There is no guarantee that if you follow all of the proper on-page search engine optimization techniques that your content show on the first page of the search engines. You can have all of your on-page seo techniques set-up correctly but if you don’t have proper off-page seo then all of your on-page work was for nothing.
Important off-page seo factors include:
*DMOZ directory listing
*Yahoo directory listing
*Domain age
*Page rank
*Google index count
*Page backlinks
*Domain backlinks
*Page .edu/.gov backlinks
It’s important to realize that both off-page and on-page seo plays an important role in achieving top search engine rankings. 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.
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Backlinks-Backlinks refer to the given number of external links that point to any page of a website.
Internal Links-Internal links are hyperlinks that refer to related pages on a website.
H1 Tags-H1 tags <h1> aka header tags provide the proper layout of website content to the search engines.
Rel Nofollow- is an attribute that’s added to hyperlinks to tell search engines not to afford the destination url additional weight or ranking. Rel NoFollow is aka (rel=”nofollow”).
Alt Tags-Alt tags are used to specify alternative text (alt text) when images are not able to be shown on a website.
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