Why are image alt tags important?

[tony_S]

Why are image alt tags important?

[thaichacha]

The purpose of alt attributes is to provide a description of the contents of an image file. One of the most cited uses of alt attributes is to provide text for visitors who can't see images in their browsers

[neelseowork]

As you can see the alt text describes what this image is. It is important and necessary to add alt text to the photos on your website for these reasons: If images fails to load – If for any reason an image does not render on a web page, the alt tag will display in place.

[nancy07]

Alt tags are for a search engine, and alt tag helps search engine to understand the image and how it relates to the content.

[John-Smith]

Alt tags provide better image context/descriptions to search engine crawlers, helping them to index an image properly.

[Sara James]

The purpose of alt attributes is to provide a description of the contents of an image file. One of the most cited uses of alt attributes is to provide text for visitors who can't see images in their browsers.

[beautyepic]

Alt tags are important, as far as how much weight they hold in SEO is hard to tell. SEO is a competition between websites with the best optimization. A website that has every thing optimized for search engines will rank better than sites are less optimized.

[amarnathsmm]

The alt text describes what's on the image and the function of the image on the page.

[Anandkota]

Google Cannot know your images what they exactly are, alt tag helps to find the identity of the image and which is it related to.

[Kenadams]

Image alt tags are a description of your image and it is important because this is how search engines see your image.