alt tags

Hi Guys, i have been reading through the forum and on a link it said that alt tags should be attached to images on a site. Can anyone tell me how this is done?

It's an attribute of the IMG tag...



More info - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/obj ... l#adef-alt

Hi Digi,

this is the closest I can find "background: url(img/main_car.jpg);"

that's in the style css file, am I looking in the wrong place?


Pete

Yes, the CSS and markup are two separate parts. Unless there's a practice I don't know about, the ALT information is in the markup, not the CSS.

What you've posted above doesn't require ALT info because the image isn't apart of the content.

Hi again Digi,

many thanks for taking the time to help me out, it is appreciated. I have managed to put the alt tags into my car leasing page lease2u.co.uk /car-offers.php and I will do the same with the van leasing page.

My main problem is on the home page, there are 3 images there and the script for two of them is below. The problem is that I cannot find the img src=cars jpg piece of script on this page.

I am absolutely astounded. I attached the alt tags to two of my pages, all the images. I went onto page one of google in 18 hrs for iveco van leasing. Page 3 for fiat van leasing. Many many thanks Digi

Wow I've never heard of anyone jumping up like that by adding alt attributes for images, nice work.

Hi Joebert, me neither matey. I was ranking page 340 on google for "van leasing" Added the alt tags as suggested by the heroes on here and whammo. I could not believe it, my lowest rank position not page is now 124 for nissan van leasing.

You should also add alt text to your links. You can do this by using the title attribute in the A tag (example: <a href=”” title=”keyword text goes here”> keywords in links are important for optimizing for Google.

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Hi infoguidepages,

thanks for the tip but am not sure where to add this. A standard link looks like this on my site on the car offers pages:



would I add the piece of script to this line to show

title=”keyword text goes here”>

I'm still new to all this, your advice is appreciated.

Just so the following doesn't confuse anyone: alt is an attribute, <img /> and <a> are tags.

Well if you want your pages to validate in at least XHTML transitional...there is no alt attribute for links...
You can add the attribute, but I highly discourage it, but if you were to add an alt attribute it goes like:



I'm surprised your rank went up that fast just because you added the alt attribute to the img tags.

Hope that helps, Merry Christmas

Do not add an "alt" attribute to links <a>. Use a "title" attribute instead. Works exactly like murcielagossi pointed out for "alt", just using a different word.

This should only be done on links where a visitor can not immediately guess what the link points to, for instance when the link is wrapping an <img> or the link text is somthing generic like "Click here".

Good Examples

Hi Murcielagossi,

I was astonished to be honest at the jump in rank. I was nowehere near page 1 at all. the Iveco van leasing rank has dropped to 34 since I posted the page one post within 18 hrs. I am a complete and total novice at this but I have learned so much from this site that my head hurts, my Mrs is threatening leaving me if i talk about alt tags, seo or any other crap lol. Though she doesnt say that when our invoices are paid, women are strange creatures lol.

I will take your advice and not alter what i have added via the alt tags and confuse them with title tags. The last thing I want to do is spam keywords etc by duplicating them through alt and title tags, the title for most of my 356 pages remain the same and constant to create a theme if this makes sense.

A very happy xmas to you too Murcielagossi.

Many thanks,

Peter, almost divorced, almost homeless, childless, but hey who cares I was on page 1 of google pmsl!

Hi Joe,


Arghh you madman, my head hurts again am sure you lot are sadists and like to confuse us newbies ha ha.

I would not know how to do what you have suggested with my site, scuse me for being so green but am doing my best to read the code you have displayed for me, it isn't easy though Joe and I don't know how to input it into my site, am not asking you to do it for me as the advice digi gave me I worked on it myself bro. I would ask you to hold my hand and guide me but your loss as I'm taken

Thanks bud,

Pete

Glad I could be of some help. But anyways, like Joebert said, you can replace the alt attribute with the title attribute.

Ex: (the one Joebert said)



So where you wanted to put the alt attribute just simply put the title attribute: with syntax like:



Hope that helps.