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Screen readers read alt text, text-only browsers display it, Google indexes it, and visual browsers can display it as a tooltip or on the status line.
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Alt Text
The ALT text is also called alternative text and is used to describe images. It is located in the html img tag.
You can see the text when you move your mouse over an image on a webpage (that is, if they have added the ALT tag to the html img tag).
Some search engines read and index the html img tag and alt text, but how much it improves web ranking varies from engine to engine.
You can add the "alt" attribute to any image on your page. We do not recommend using more than a brief sentence or two to describe an image.
Alt text keywords
Do not try to cram a bunch of keywords into the "alt" attribute. We recommend using no more than 2-3 keywords per image. Be sure to use the keyword phrases that you also used in the copy of your page, title tag, META description and other tags.
Improve web ranking
To improve web ranking with alt text, you will have to describe the image - do not just list keywords. The "alt" attribute is also a good place for misspellings and plural keyword phrases that you may not have used elsewhere.
Html img tag
The html img tag with alt text looks like:
<IMG SRC="test.gif" width="25" height="25"alt="Place your alt text here">
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