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Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Vlad — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:35:31 -0000

Not only link, you can title tag just about any html element of your document.

Thanks for stopping by!

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Guy — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:22:23 -0000

Very good information. And while your busy putting title tags on your images don't forget to include them on the rest of your links too. Title tags are often over looked and thus can give you a step up on your competition.

Cheers
Guy

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Vlad - the owner of Go Beyond — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:38:31 -0000

Eric,

Just make sure to remember that TITLE tag in the header of your page is not the same as the "title attribute" in the image source code.

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Eric Holm — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:30:14 -0000

Vlad:
Another excellent tip. I didn't know what the Title tag was used for. Now, I have a lot of updating to do.
Eric.

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Vlad - the owner of Go Beyond — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:06:32 -0000

Jim,

Thanks for stopping by. There might be a way to do these things without working with code. Depending on the authoring software, you should be able to ad these attributes without looking at the code.

If you write a blog, there many platforms including WordPress will allow you to ad ALT attribute. But I think it's much faster and easier to work with code rather than WYSIWYG interface. What do you use to create your pages?

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Jim Joeriman — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:21:26 -0000

Okay... While I am pretty good with technology I am relatively new to HTML, SEO, and on-line content. So I really appreciate this information.
So... am I correct in my understanding that the only way to add ALT and TITLE is to manually insert it into the HTML source code?
Thanks.

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

Vlad - the owner of Go Beyond — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:05:31 -0000

I think it is also helpful to set an option via Google webmaster tolls to allow the bot indexing the images. I agree that it can bring some extra traffic.

Re: Make Your Images Understandable To Search Engines

brackets — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:03:06 -0000

This is very good advice! I have used these tags on my real estate site, and some of my images have ended up on the google image search. Any extra exposure for your site and listings is a big bonus.