Image alts

[homebizseo]

I've one site where I regularly get over 50% of traffic through image search. So alt data's essential. I used to ignore it, or rush entering it, thinking it a waste of time, but not any more.

What is the traffic volume of the site that gets most of its traffic from an image search?

[Justin]

I had a lot of traffic coming one time because I alt tagged an image "corvette" and actually began ranking for that single keyword in the image search results. I don't know how great the traffic was but more traffic is better than no traffic.

[homebizseo]

I had a lot of traffic coming one time because I alt tagged an image "corvette" and actually began ranking for that single keyword in the image search results. I don't know how great the traffic was but more traffic is better than no traffic.

A agree, more traffic is better than none. I think its great that an image tag can create traffic.

[Niche]

Are "alt" tags for images good for SEO? Dunno, but I see most of the popular websites use them effectively.

Alt tag on omages is very good for SEO but must be used with caution
It's true that the words that you include in your alt tags go towards your total keyword count. But I would make sure that the words are relevant to the images. Also do not use the same alt tag on all the images on a page or it could come across as keyword stuffing

[Jenie0109]

definitely... Web Crawlers cant read images ,and the only way for web spiders can crawl those images is via 'ALT' tags...

[Max]

Are "alt" tags for images good for SEO? Dunno, but I see most of the popular websites use them effectively.

A descriptive alt tag is vital if you want your images to be found by Google Image Search and Bing Image Search.