I see more and more sites using "title" tag instead of "alt" tag when inserting an image to a page, whats the difference? SEO? What is better of those two?
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'title' = the text your browser is supposed to show when you are hovering over the image.
'alt' = the text your browser is supposed to show when the image couldn't be downloaded or your browser is configured to not show images... -
title goes in <a> whereas alt goes in <img>Mechanical Bunny Media
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Title= is for the nature of a link. It describes the link you are linking to. IE: It's the title/anchor text for an image.
It can also be used to describe a linked picture, if the picture is about the linked page. This way text around the image + the link + the relevant page match. However, I have seen no proof that this works for any SEO value.
alt: Describes the exact picture that is being displayed. Not the linked page.
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Use both?Comment
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May have been hard to understand:
The link is over an image, using title tells the bot what the linked page is about.
An information tag used to tell what the nature of the picture is about. Mostly used for people with vision problems. The title tag will be read back to the visitor so they know what the image is about.Code:<a href="#" title="my phrase"><img src="img.jpg"></a>
Tells what the actual viewed picture/thumbnail is about.Code:<a href="#"><img src="img.jpg" title="my phrase"></a>
Code:<a href="#"><img src="img.jpg" alt="about picture"></a>
You can use both, use title in your a href's that link to images (not text), and use alt tags in any image with supporting text around it. So not all images need alt tags. ~TheDoc - ICQ7765825
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You're referring to the title attribute not the tag...
The title tag is important. The title attribute is not.
The title attribute can be added to almost any tag on a page so it would be open for major abuse if given any significant value by search engines.
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BTW... it doesn't ever HURT to use title attributes...
..but NEVER neglect alt in favor of title.
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Use both. Alt tag is the text that shows before and/or if the images does not load ie "Nude Pic of aico", Title tag is the text that shows up next to your cursor when you mouse over a link or image, ie "Click to see Nude Pic of aico".Last edited by aico; 10-05-2008, 10:50 AM.Comment
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I see doc.. you thought I was talking to you in my original post.
My orginal comment was to the OP; he called it a tag in the title.
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