For the sake of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) you should have to maintain some criteria during writing a Blog post.
At the time of writing any post, if any optimization is done in order to get rank well in search engines like Yahoo, Bing and Google, then this is called On Page Optimization.
Now a day, the search engines are emphasizing on the On Page SEO more. Without any Off Page optimization, if you just do some On Page Optimization on your page; it’s enough to get rank well in search engines. It’s proved by me. I experienced it on one of my Blog and doing better in SERPs.
Adding ALT Tag (Alternative Text or Alternative Name) in Image is one kind of On Page Optimization.
Now, you can ask me why the Alt Tag is needed for a Image?
Well, the so called search engines especially Google Bot can’t read the images you add on your post. Suppose, you added a image of “Computer” on one of your post. You added this photo because you want to tell the search engines what this post is all about. But this is really sorrowful matter is that, Google Bot won’t be able to detect your image. Search Engine Bot can’t read the image; they can read just any kind of text.
So, using ALT tag in your image means, adding a text about what kind of image you are using. In other means, if you use the AlT Tag in images; if the browser’s image load option is stopped, then your browser will show you the Alternative Text; so that you can easily understand that what the image was there.
Alt tag in images helps you with search engine positioning in making your website on top on SERPs.
Snatching the example; if you used an ALT tag on you Computer Image; the search engine robot would definitely detect your image that it is a computer image and this post is all about a Computer.
So, How Can I add a Alt Tag in Blogger or Blogspot Blog Post?
In WordPress Blog it’s easy to use the Alternative Name or Text (Alt Tag) during adding an image by default. But, if you Blog in Blogspot/Blogger platform you have to interfere into the HTML code.
Here the process of adding the Alt tag has been mentioned stepwise-
- Add an Image as usual method in your new post.
- Now click on the Edit HTML tab from the Post Editor Box Toolbar.
- Find your Image HTML Source code. Which is like <img src= “http://shamimnasir.com/seo.jpg”>. If you want to add a img Alt tag where the Alternative Text will be “SEO”. Then, just put a code like alt= “SEO” after the iamge souce link and within the end tag. For example: <img src= http://shamimnasir.com/seo.jpg” alt= “SEO” /> . Here an Alternative Name “SEO” has been added which can be readable by the search engines.
- Try to use your post keyword (Just one keyword) on your Image Alt Tag. It will give you visitors from Image Search of the search engines too.
Whenever you make a new post on your Blogspot blog, then after adding an image on post, click on Edit HTML tab and inset the alt html tag manually.
Happy Blogging.
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Nice Blog….
Very useful Blogger stuff. Dont understand how blogger missed including alt tags.
Thanks
John
tq for the info.I thought it automatically when we name the image like seo.jpg…
I did what you said but how do I know it is working? On the post if my mouse hovers on the image the alt description cannot be seen. So does this mean that the alt description has not worked?
ALT tag can not be seen if you just hover your mouse on it. It only be showed if you disable automatic image loading from your browser. ALT text will be displayed if the browser can not show the image of a page.
how important the alt tag is ? like meta description,keyword or less? or nothing but only meaning to search engine that there is a word, text here?
is any importance of meta keyword? i dont put keyword in my hompage.
where is followup comment via email in your site?
ALT Text has a vast importance in SEO. Read this post carefully…….you will be able to understand everything then.
Meta Keyword has no importance in Google. But in MSN you might get some importance while using Meta Keywords.
thnx for sharing this trick. Trick is very simple & good worked. I apply you tips and got result what I desired.
It’s my pleasure Roon. Go ahead with your SEO.
Thanks this helped me alot
Sucks how we have to do it manually in the html though
Thanks your trick, I have applied it in my blog, but if I use many keyword and separated it by comma like exp “SEO alt tag, Trick for img in blog” is it ok !?!
related Keyword is okey. But don’t stuff your post with keywords. It is worth mentioning that Meta keyword has no importance to Google.
First of all thanks to you. I am a new blogger and do not know much about seo. Hope, I will apply this in my next post
Thank you so much! I tried and it worked!
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I think it is right process alt=”SEO” SEO replace any key word.
am i correct? if wrong please help me to understand.
Worked for me greatly . Thanx bro
will adding alt tags to images bring traffic fron bing images also?
Or only from google?
Yeah…it will bring visitors from Bing too.
Thanks for this informative post.
But how come it only appears to work on one of my posts? I can search my pictures for one blog post, but the pics on the rest of my blog do not appear on search results.
I can’t believe that google of all companies left this out of blogger. It is a severe limitation for SEO and for accessibility for screen readers. This solution is a good workaround, however, there is no way to make alt tags for the thumbnails that show up in the article list, popular posts, etc. They need to fix this.
Thankyou so much for this, I looked on the internet for ages to find a post that explained this in a way that I could actually understand it! It is amazing how many other people wrote about this but missed out crucial information, I kept thinking it was about labelling the pictures before you uploaded them but this made it very clear.
I have been blogging for nearly 4 years and I have only just got around to understanding these basic points as I had so many other things to learn!
Thankyou so much.
Thanks for this info and you have explained it very well. I tried this for my new posts. Will adding alt tags to images of older posts work?
Thanks Brother i am searching it.Thanks………………
thanks for info. But, can any one help , what kind of ALT TEXT should be? use it as key words?
As my blog is http://jthefree.blogspot.com , but, i cant understand, what kind of alt text should i give to it.. can any one help me?
Nasir bhai can you help me more for SEO. This is nice information. I want you to help me for my blog.. will you please?
Oh sure Sarg! You just keep reading all of the contents related SEO in this blog and ask me what more you need.
Hey thanks a lot! It’s so hard to find relative information on SEO on the internet! Well at least on how to do something without giving the run around! I didn’t really understand how to enter the alt tag in HTML which I wanted to learn more about instead of doing it through insert image. Thank’s a lot!!
Thanks for the tips man. I was really looking to find a simple solution for adding Alt tag and here you go.
I hope the blogspot team adding feature to insert alt image text easily.
thanks for the tips.but I think blogger has added a new feature that can include alt text easily, right?
thanks for info.
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Thks for the html code! I’ve implemented but not sure if I’ve done it correctly. Recently posted Singapore Bloggers Unite To #CookForFamily! & googled for #cookforfamily. But none of my images appear :< Kindly advise! Thks so much!
very interesting and informative blog. I love it.