Comments on: Measuring the Value of ALT and Title Elements of Image Tags

By: Vases for centerpieces

Vases for centerpieces — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:48:36 +0000

This blog makes me realize the energy of words and pictures. As always your things are just gorgeous and I am grateful that you let us look in! Keep coming up with ideas.

By: printerinkt

printerinkt — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:29:55 +0000

I’ve always thought that the ALT tag only was valuable for blind people, who than hear which image you see. Interesting insights. Thanks a lot

By: pittfall

pittfall — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:38:54 +0000

Kurt,

Thanks for the comment. I don’t have very much experience in optimizing for image search because I haven’t needed to optimize for images except for regular SERPs. I would love to see findings for this if you are up to testing it.

Cheers!

By: Kurt

Kurt — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:45:35 +0000

It looks like the results were for a standard web search. Do you think that an image search would follow the same formula? Thanks.

By: Porselen Sepeti

Porselen Sepeti — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:46:54 +0000

I like to see the effect or Google caffeine in this test.
Another thing, Bing already improved its algorithm and it is now giving high rank to important keywords the same with Google.

By: Outsourcing Europe

Outsourcing Europe — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:31:51 +0000

Interesting experiment…

By: bob

bob — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:58:12 +0000

I like to see the effect or Google caffeine in this test.
Another thing, Bing already improved its algorithm and it is now giving high rank to important keywords the same with Google. Do you have any update for the Bing?

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Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:59:42 +0000

[...] on this test for some time and I thought you deserve to see the results. The last test on the value of image optimization was limited to Google and Yahoo only and utilized the title and alt attributes in image [...]

By: Austin Bands

Austin Bands — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:33:01 +0000

Great experiment! I had often wondered how much weight each of these elements carried and this clears up a lot of the mystery. Yahoo’s algo always seems wacked to me. Google seems a lot more logical and for the life of me i can’t figure out what Yahoo is thinking with some of their results. This just proves it again. Why would no alt plus no title rank higher than alt plus title in Yahoo?

By: botez

botez — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:24:13 +0000

Google has developed a tiny mini little bug right now. I was thrilled to see that has worked. For having your video related to google for a keyword research all you have to do is to make a good youtube description and to add a screen tag on your video. Talking about photo, i just changed the name of the jpeg file with a name that has the keyword. The jpeg must be placed on a page that google is considered important for one of the words from the keywords. And don’t forget to alt it.
I have two of the picture on the majority of the searches in google roumania related to baptist photo and wedding photo. And i can see visitators on analytic every day from those google image searches.

By: Jamp Mark

Jamp Mark — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:45:29 +0000

I wonder how and when Google consider indexing images on my pages. I’ve put both title and alt tags but haven’t seen my images on image search yet. My site is 4 months old.

By: Nick

Nick — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:07:34 +0000

We have always used alt tags as they are important to users using text readers – if you have images and want the site accessible to users with text readers they are important but handy for seo as well.

By: searchprincess

searchprincess — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:49:20 +0000

Great article Steve! Looking forward to more updates!

By: Woody

Woody — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:26:31 +0000

I am always amazed at how many people do not add alt tags to their images. It takes two seconds to do and obviously there is a pay off. Thanks for the blog post.

By: anilime

anilime — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:01:34 +0000

That’s a really nice results. Until know I always use alt for my images but I never did research on what the impacts is for search engine. Thanks.

By: Utah SEO

Utah SEO — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:09:06 +0000

Very interesting results. To think that google and yahoo are at odds over the use of both an alt and a title attributes. Looks like adding both attributes are the way to go. Google just brings in way more traffic than the other guys.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:33:55 +0000

Thanks everyone for your comments.

@Craig
The results in MSN still do not include the updated title that has corrected spelling, rather they still contain in “Dalmation” in the SERPs and the cached page. Hopefully, this will be updated… when is the better question.

By: Craig Geis

Craig Geis — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:34:51 +0000

I’m seeing Live/MSN results now.

(1) 3 – Alt + Title
(7) 4 – Alt + Title
(8) 1 – Alt + Title
(9) 2 – Alt + Title

By: Site Link Ekle

Site Link Ekle — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:39:43 +0000

Yeah , it is great article, I use these in my own projects too… Thanks lol

By: Sean Hecking

Sean Hecking — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:36:34 +0000

Steve,

Great work here. My suspicions have been confirmed! I have used ALT and TITLE attributes with keywords thinking they provided a slight value to search engines. The Yahoo! information is interesting. It is known in the xHTML world that ALT descriptions help validate the page and Google generally values sites with W3C xHTML validation. The TITLE attribute is known to have value in describing the anchor link resource and can have some benefit when internal linking content.

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:22:43 +0000

Very interesting and revealing research, Stephen. It’s not surprising, though, that Google and Yahoo! put a heavy weighting on the use of title attributes on images since the use of image title tags is a W3c standard – http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#h-7.4.3 – while alt tags are meant for accessibility purposes, not as tool tips (which is why Mozilla browsers like Firefoox don’t display alt tags as tool tips).

I think Google’s parameters make sense — rank an image higher if it has both title and alt tags as this is good universal design.

By: pittfall

pittfall — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:57:20 +0000

Thanks for the comments. This is certainly not the results that I initially assumed I would get either. I am not sure the MSN/Live Search results will be reported on because the study has been opened, but if the Google and Yahoo results remain consistent, then I might be able to report the MSN findings later.

By: Grand Rapids Web Design

Grand Rapids Web Design — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:55:23 +0000

Wow, not was I was expecting to see at all. I would have thought that the alt tag had more weight than the title tag did. I hope you will update the post when you get the msn/live results.

By: web design

web design — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:29:48 +0000

Good information!! this is exactly what I were looking for

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