Why do you need alt text on your image?

[nancy07]

Why do you need alt text on your image?

[sadianisar]

Because alt text if you have used keyword for image, then it will also rank your website higher on search engines as well as your image will better on Search Images. Therefore, it is one of the technique of SEO too.

[buysellmarket]

google bot does not read the image and title. alt tag means alternative tag. search engine bot read the alt tag as image name.

[WellingtonSilva]

It is important and necessary to add alt text to the photos on your website for three main reasons:
1. If images fails to load
2. For Search Engines
3. For the visually impaired

[fayeseom]

Alt tag or alternate text helps in crawling of image and indexing in google database. If your image take long time in loading then with the help of alt tag user can get the idea about what is this image.