Use Of Alt Text with Images

Posted on October 29th, 2007
by Lisa Stewart: : Better Rankings By Blogging

The alst text of an image is a significant as anchor text of a link. Most web designers underestimate the power of alt text.

When designing a site- just writing a blog keeping accessibility in mind is not only part if best practice- it also will help in optimizing your site. A site that is accessible is also one that is easily crawled and index by search engines.
Part of optimizing as site, creating link bait tools and viral marketing will often images and all important alt text.

An excellent reference for using alt text can be found at CynthiaSays.com

It is a fairly quick read and you will pick up some useful pointers and get rid of common mistakes like using image name as alt text or key word spamming in alt text.

The article is part of an excellent series, Understanding Accessibility.

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