alt tags are used with pictures, (images), to give an indication of what the image is about.
Example, move your mouse pointer over this banner image and the alt tag will be displayed.
The HTML code for the Banner image above is:-
<p>
<a href="http://www.acomputerportal.com/index.html"
target="_blank"><img src="http://www.acomputerportal.com/acomputerportal_banner.gif"
alt="A Computer Portal. Freeware, shareware and software links. Perl, CGI,
Java, web masters tools, etc. Computer languages and Programming code.
Other website promotion and traffic boosting. More Webmaster tools.
Small and quick shareware to download. Hardware from BIOS, Microsoft
Windows to UNIX." border=0 height=60 width=486></a>
Note the alt tag section:-
alt="A Computer Portal. Freeware, shareware and software links. Perl, CGI, Java, web masters tools, etc. Computer languages and Programming code. Other website promotion and traffic boosting. More Webmaster tools. Small and quick shareware to download. Hardware from BIOS, Microsoft Windows to UNIX."
Advice: Use alt tags which images. Remember that not everyone has good eyesight and mat need a description of that image to understand it.
Search Engines still favour text as apposed to images. Use alt tags and other methods to help search engine find your content.
Images, video and other graphic types may also use a Thumbnail to represent that item.
Search engines. Online Dictionary, Thesaurus. Acronym or abbreviation finder, etc..
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