Images and SEO

Pictures are useless content on a web page and o one of the most commonly know seo tips for images is that you have to use the <img scr="" alt="your keywords here but not more then 160 characters">

Why?

Easy, crawlers read – scan text and don’t have eyes so they cannot see the image and threat it are some sort of whitespace unless you use your alt tag and also if the image isn’t available at the time a regular user still knows what what the image is about.

Also everything that we may do can be exploited for bad use and so ver the years techniques have been refined to abuse this fact and webmasters have ’stuffed’ their ‘alt tags’ with everything they could think of – Google has, however,  found ways to combat this and treats such strategies as spamming their bots – Sill it’s legal but be careful don’t go of spamming, one or two well placed words are more then enough.