How to Use Alt Tag Checker
There are two ways to use the Alt Tags Checker – either by checking a specific domain or page. Simply choose the variant you need, paste in a URL and start a free trial. After a few moments, the scan will begin and you will be able to see the results. Below, you can see how to start the scanning process.
Domain Check
Step 1: Insert your domain and start free trial
When you want to check a domain, just press “check domain” and enter the site. We’re checking techgmr.com in our example!
Step 2: Interpreting the Alt tags checker results via domain check
The scan you perform will generate an audit of your site’s content for the domain entered. In “Content relevance,” issues can be found with alt tags: missing or improper use, and/or one-word descriptions which may lead visitors expecting more information from those pages when they click on them – thus causing confusion about what exactly it is these sites are offering (and maybe leading some away). Clicking onto any problem area displays affected pages as well fixing instructions if needed; making correcting all problems easy!
Additional features of domain/website alt tags checker
You can receive a full site audit report after selecting the Check Domain option. The information in this document will help you identify different types of problems on your website and how to fix them!
Page Check
Step 1: Insert your URL and start free trial
If you want to check a specific page, press the “check page” button, enter the URL, and start the free trial. For our example, we’re scanning survivalservers.com.
Step 2: Interpreting the Alt tag tester results via page check
Here you can check all the images on your page with alt tags as well as size, title attributes and status code for each image.
Additional features of page alt tag checker
The alt tags checker can also help you find other problems with the page you scanned, such as content, localization, page speed, and so on. By identifying these issues, you can work to improve your website’s overall performance.
If you’re concerned about potential issues with the links on other pages of your site, our full audit feature makes it easy to check. Simply close the page details and enter the URL of the page you’re interested in into the search box on the “All Pages” tab. Get more details by clicking on the URL.
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What Is Alt Text?
The alt attribute is a picture description consisting of several words, read by the web crawler when page is indexed. If user has disabled the graphics support function in the browser, then the contents of the tag will be displayed instead of the picture. The text for this attribute should not be excessively long.
The title attribute is a description for the visitor. If the user rests the mouse cursor on the picture for a couple of seconds, title attribute will appear. Usually, to fill this tag a detailed description of 1-2 proposals is used.
Why Do We Need Alt Tags?
No doubt, the graphic image will load correctly even if the image tags do not have img alt and title. But in this case, the possibilities of SEO images will remain unactivated. Having spent a bit of time creating an alternative description, webmaster will be able to:
- transmit the necessary data to search robot;
- attract new visitors;
- increase readers’ loyalty.
Search engines examine uniqueness of graphic images, but they are not able to analyze their thematic identity. Therefore, if a webmaster wants a robot to categorize a picture, then it should make up a text for the alt tag.
In addition to the main search, Google and Yandex have “images” service. By creating optimized descriptions of image tags, webmaster increases the chances that Internet users will be able to come across his website using this service. In a result, traffic growth will be ensured.
Checking alt tags is important but not enough to get good SERP positions!
Make a full audit to find out and fix your website issues in order to rank by images as well.
Keep in mind that there are different types of issues with images including pages having redirected images.
How to Use Tags in SEO Promotion?
To attract leads to promoted requests, webmaster has to make up descriptions using key phrases for alt and title. The text created for alt tag can look like this: “adjective + key phrase”. For the title attribute, it is recommended to create a complex sentence “adjective + key + addition”.
For instance, let’s take a key ” New York real estate “. For such key, you can draw a description alt “New York real estate luxury”, as well as the title “luxury real estate in Manhattan, New York.” An optimized description of image should contain such words as “photo”, “picture”.
Alt Text Best Practices
Eventually, image alt should be distinct yet in addition descriptive of the point of the webpage.
- Be specific when you describing the image. Depict the picture, and be explicit. Use both the picture’s subject and setting to direct you.
- Keep your alt text less than 125 characters. Screen-reading tools regularly quit perusing alt attribute at this point, cutting off wordy alt text at awkward moments.
- Try not to begin alt text with “picture of…” or “Image of…” Jump directly into the picture’s description. Screen-reading tools (and Google, so far as that is concerned) will recognize it as an image from the article’s HTML source code.
- Utilize your keywords, but sparingly. Possibly incorporate your article’s objective keyword if it’s effectively remembered for your alt text. If not, think about semantic keywords, or simply the most significant terms inside a longtail keyword.
- Try not to pack your keyword into each and every picture’s alt attribute. In the event that your blog entry contains a series of body images, use your keyword once. Identify the picture you believe is generally illustrative of your topic, and assign it to your keyword.
Also, you can check out the full guide by Tomm Griffith co-founder of ClickMinded.
Other Ways to Check Alt Tag in Browser
There are a number of ways to check the alt tags for images on your website. You can try various browser-based toolbars and add-ins or extensions that are available for all the major browsers. Alternatively, you can use the following techniques:
- For Chrome™ browsers, right-click on the image and select Inspect from the quick menu. The HTML code for the image will be highlighted, and you can view the alt text and other attributes.
- Firefox® browsers work in a similar way – right-click on the image and choose Inspect Element from the quick menu, or hit the Q key. This will open the HTML code for the element at the bottom of your screen, and you can view the alt text and other attributes.
