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streetparade
streetparade

Reputation: 32878

Does a Search engine rate the alt attribute on image tags?

Do search engines rate also the alt atribute in image tags? In my opinion the alt attribute was for blind peoples.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 121

Answers (3)

skyflyer
skyflyer

Reputation: 441

Couple of things I can think of.

1. It is for "visually impaired" people , improving accessibility of your site.

2. If the download speed is not good, like Jonathan Sampson puts it, it is quite useful to users to get a glance of the image.

3. It also helpful to image search, but I am not sure about it.

All in all, atl attribute is helpful to users. TAO that end, I believe most of search engines will give weight to that attribute.

Mind you though, just inter concise description text, otherwise, it is even harmful to your SEO.

Upvotes: 1

user253984
user253984

Reputation:

A quick google search led me to this blog post: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-alt-attributes-smartly.html

It seems at least google is checking the alt attribute but every search engine has it's own methods so [your favourite search engine] might not use it.

Upvotes: 1

Sampson
Sampson

Reputation: 268324

The alt attribute isn't just for blind people, it shows up when the image itself doesn't load still informing the visually-able to understand what was supposed to be there. As for the search engines, I don't think there's any solid resource telling you the specifics of each.

In my opinion, you should continue to use it as a good practice and for the potential that this information is used in image-search engines. After all, searching for "Jonathan Sampson" should turn up images that have an alt text of "Photo of Jonathan Sampson."

Upvotes: 0

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