Homepage SEO Analysis for 1STSEO.INFO

Help for visitors with impaired vision

People with impaired vision use screen readers to help them “read” websites. If you provide descriptive alt text for images on your site, people using screen readers will know what the images are about, and will get the same full understanding of your site that others do.

Good for search engine rankings

Describing images on a web page with alt text can help the page rank higher in search results if you include important and relevant keywords. Do not be tempted to stuff irrelevant keywords into alt text just so a page will rank well for those words. Search engines can recognize this ploy for what it is: an attempt to game results.

Writing image descriptions

This is what an image description looks like in HTML:

<img src="image.jpg" alt="This is the image description">

You can write image descriptions, or alt text, by writing the HTML directly into the code for a web page. If you're using a content management system or online commerce software package, it will probably have a feature to help you quickly create alt text for your images.

Caution: While some software packages automatically generate alt text, they don't always do it well. Always check the quality of automatically generated alt text.