Examples of Great Alt Text
Today I received an email from windows dot com. As I didn't have Thunderbird set up to show remote content in their emails I was able to see the alt text for each of the images in the email. These are some examples of great alt text and their associated images:
1. A father and two daughters sit on a sofa looking at a tablet together.
2. A woman using a mobile phone and sitting by a window.
3. A woman holding a jacket and a mobile phone with an open laptop on a desk in the background.
The alt text for each of these images describes the image so that it makes sense for someone who does not see the actual image. This is what you should be striving for when you write the alt text for your own images.
When you're sending emails to your subscribers, as well as when you're including images in your articles, you'll want to provide great alt text.
Give your readers a great user experience and the search engines will reward you with higher rankings.
One more thing, my friend Loes, reminded me that every image gets its own URL so most of the time we should rename our images before uploading. "Sonycam643267544643 in your URL looks not nice, https://yourupload.com/sunsetinarizona is much nicer." Thank you, Loes.
Are you using alt text according to these principles?
Please add your comments, observations and questions to the conversation below.
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To give you an example in an article about healthy vegan food I have a picture of blueberries and have titled it healthy vegan blueberries. Will Google not like this?
Sorry for so many questions and thank you in advance for any response
Kevin
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You don't need to add hyphens for the alt text or the title or the caption. Hyphens are only used for the image's URL and they are automatically added by WordPress.
Kevin
Keyword stuffing is not OK. e.g. "healthy vegan blueberres, vegan berries, vegan fruit, healthy berries, healthy fruit, healthy blueberries for vegans" Keyword stuffing can get your article google-slapped.
It's up to you whether you want to go back to your existing articles to remove the hyphens. They're probably not doing any harm, it's just that they are a bit awkward and not necessary.
Properly attributed quotations are fine, Kevin. The search engines expect them to be duplicate content. Just write a lot of unique stuff too.
Thanks as always, hopefully in the future the help will be reciprocal
Kevin
So far i have not noticed any negative effects but i will do what you said and write descriptive alt texts and see what happens.
thanks
Thank you for this great tutorial.
I use alt descriptions as you have indicated. Not only does it help with rankings, but more importantly, it makes me feel like I'm doing the decent thing of being fair to people who need to use the internet in a different way.
Best,
Alenka
Great training Marion, and bookmarked:)
I do not think that is the case, it is more:
A basket full of fruits and vegetables or a basket full of fruit and vegetables, carrots, peppers, apple, peaches etc. Which of these 2 would be better?
Greetings from the south of Spain, Taetske
I think that with most of my Alt text I am on the safe side. When I update posts I will have a look to be sure.
Have a nice weekend, Taetske
