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  thecatalystpartnership · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 11:00 am

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  Is ‘Alternative text’ the same as alt tags. If not where do I add my alt tags?
  Blog url: http://thecatalystpartnership.wordpress.com/

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 11:13 am

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  Yes it is – “Alternate Text” is what goes in the alt property of the image tag.

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  thecatalystpartnership · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 11:16 am

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  so should I just put in all my alt tags as xxx, yyy, fff, xxxx?

  With the actual words I want of course.

  Do you have a good link about how to create good alt tags?

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 11:21 am

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  Alt tags are supposed to be a textual representation of an image contents, mostly useful to screen readers (a software used on top of a web browser by the blind and visually impaired)

  Maybe you’re confusing them with Meta tags?

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  thecatalystpartnership · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 11:36 am

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  I guess I read this

  ‘Next you must add your targeted keyword to the image ALT text attribute.’

  http://www.garthobrien.com/bloggers-you-are-missing-out-on-image-search-traffic/

  So where is the Alt text attribute?

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 9:08 pm

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  You can edit alternate text in your image settings. The field you’re looking for is in the Advanced Settings tab.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-settings/#within-posts

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  thecatalystpartnership · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 9:23 pm

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  Sorry I’m still confused.

  Here is what I read ‘Next you must add your targeted keyword to the image ALT text attribute. Search engine cannot read or view the image. They cannot determine the content of the image, but only know there is an image file within the content. The image ALT text is an attribute is your opportunity to describe the content of that particular image. This is another great opportunity to use your targeted keyword. The image ALT text can be viewed by a user in some browsers when they hover their mouse over the image.’

  I am just looking to know where I add these keywords. My ‘alternate text’ is in the ‘edit image’ tab.

  So if I put in my keywords in the ‘alternate text’ field is that what Google will read to describe what’s in the picture when theY index their databases?

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Dec 22, 2011 at 9:49 pm

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  So if I put in my keywords in the ‘alternate text’ field is that what Google will read to describe what’s in the picture when theY index their databases?

  We really don’t have control over how Google indexes websites, so you might want to contact them:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  But you can add alternate text to your images as you describe.