Magento Expert Forum - Improve your Magento experience

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 20 of 24

Why do you need alt text on your images?

  1. #1

  2. #2
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2016
    Location
    Delhi
    Posts
    68
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Alt text seen by user when image is unable to upload. It describe about image title and every image should have image alt tag in terms of SEO ..

  3. #3
    New member
    Join Date
    Oct 2016
    Location
    Calgary, AB, CA
    Posts
    1
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Because crawlers read only text so it takes alt tag as reference for image and on the other hand if image is not displayin fon web then alt tag will display

  4. #4
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    May 2016
    Location
    Punjab India
    Posts
    135
    Thanks
    1
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Quote Originally Posted by amelierichard View Post
    Because crawlers read only text so it takes alt tag as reference for image and on the other hand if image is not displayin fon web then alt tag will display
    Yes you are absolutely right.

  5. #5
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Posts
    11
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Alt text seen by user when image is unable to upload. It's have important part of SEO.

  6. #6
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Mar 2015
    Posts
    295
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts

    Default

    Search engines are not read the images and text on the images. So if we provide alt text search engines read while crawling the website and helps to catch easily and displays if images are not uploded due to bad network. So user can understand that image is related to perticular topic.

  7. #7
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Location
    Bangalore
    Posts
    64
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    ALT tags provide a text alternative to an image. Alt tags help blind people understand what content you are displaying on your website. For the majority of people though, alt tags are simply used for search engines. When search engines crawl your website they use the alt tags to better understand the content of your website so that they can properly index it within the ranks of their search results.

  8. #8
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Posts
    10
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    alt text used for images for the purpose of google identify the what it is so alt text is important for every images.

  9. #9
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    May 2016
    Posts
    47
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Thanks to everyone for their replies.

  10. #10
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Dec 2016
    Location
    Chennai
    Posts
    12
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    If you’ve built a website and started to learn about SEO, you are probably familiar with the term alt text. Put simply, alt text (also referred to as alternative text or alt tags) are used to describe the images on your web page.

  11. #11
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Aug 2016
    Posts
    107
    Thanks
    1
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Because google does not read image

  12. #12
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Apr 2016
    Posts
    116
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    alt tag is alternative tag of image which is show the name of image.

  13. #13
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Location
    Delhi
    Posts
    244
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

    Default

    Alt tag means an alternative tag. We used alt tag because crawlers do not understand or read the images they only read the text so to tell the bots about the image we use the alt text.

  14. #14
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Jul 2017
    Location
    Delhi
    Posts
    68
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 3 Times in 3 Posts

    Default

    Google does not read the images . Google bot who crawls the website reads the alt tag of the image to understand the image.

  15. #15
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Mar 2017
    Posts
    30
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts

    Default

    Google does not read images so we used alt tags

  16. #16
    New member
    Join Date
    May 2018
    Posts
    4
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Alt tags is refer to alternate tag, it explain Google crawlers what this image about as Google couldn’t read images.

    Best Salesforce Consultancy

  17. #17
    New member
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    Posts
    7
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    There two main reason to alt tag the images first it helps to make google understand what images is it so it ranks better on image searches along with that it also helps making page more relevant.
    brunswickbilliards.hatenablog.com : a brunswick billiards blog.

  18. #18
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Jun 2018
    Posts
    25
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post

    Default

    Alt text is the text which the describe the brief about the images.

  19. #19
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Jan 2018
    Posts
    56
    Thanks
    0
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Google is not reading images. With the help of Alt tags, Google can read the name of image which are known as Alt tags. It is the important factor in SEO.

  20. #20
    Junior Member
    Join Date
    Feb 2018
    Posts
    53
    Thanks
    4
    Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts

    Default

    Alt text for images provides a text explanation of images for users who are unable to see them.

Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •