How To Write ALT Codes & Comment
Tag
- By the SearchEngineOptimizationPromotion.com team
ALT
Codes:
There
are still many people in the world who use very old browser.
These were the first generation browsers. Very peculiar browses,
they support only text and/or the very first version of HTML
(Hyper Text Markup Language). They don't understand frames
neither have any capability to download images and present
them to their viewers. The ALT code was probably included
for these reasons in the modern browsers. ALT code is a text
that is shown in place of an image if the browser cannot display
images. Also, there are some people who disable the image-displaying
property of their browsers so that the websites download faster.
Since they cannot view the images, they see the ALT codes.
(If you are using a browser which supports images you can
still view the ALT code. To view take your mouse pointer over
the image - the ALT text will appear and then disappear after
a couple of seconds.)
The
search engines had no way out but to support these ALT codes
since browsers old or new support it. Note that the search
engines DO NOT care about images - they are neither text nor
something they can understand but they do care for the text
in the ALT codes. So why not to use the ALT code optimally,
especially when they can help us to achieve good search engine
ranking.
You
should use at least 2-3 popular keywords in the ALT codes.
The text you use should have some relevance to the image.
Just as an example, if the image is a logo of your company
the ALT code could be the official name of the company.
Here's
is how to write ALT code:
<IMG
SRC="path of the image to be displayed" WIDTH="width
of the image in percentage or pixels" HEIGHT="height
of the image in percentage or pixels" ALT="popular
keyword 1, popular keyword 2, popular keyword 3">
Where
popular keyword 1, popular keyword 2, popular keyword 3 are
your important alt code keywords that will help you to get
top rank in the search engines. It is recommended that you
define height and width of the images. This will speed up
the process of displaying the page. If height and width is
defined the browsers understand the space to be provided to
the image and therefore go ahead to display the text on the
page, else they wait for the image to be downloaded fully,
display them and then display the text.
If
your site has 15 images and you included 2-3 unique keyword/phrase
in each image you end up including 30-45 important words in
your site with no extra effort. This will surely boost your
ranking. (Please note that there are certain browsers that
do not support ALT codes, in that case you may not be able
to see the ALT codes. For the best results it is advised that
you view this site in a browser that supports ALT code.)
COMMENT
Tag:
The
COMMENT tag as the name suggests is used for comments in between
HTML tags or text in a Web Page. Browsers do not display text
written in the comment tag. It was probably made with the
point to help the webmasters to know why a particular tag
or command had been written or what their functions are. This
being the case, most of the search engines too ignore the
text written in the comment tag, but a few don't.
The
COMMENT Tag is written like this:
<!--
This is a comment -->
The
text you are seeing in between <!-- and --> is not displayed
by the browser.
Include
a few important keywords in the comment tag. A big page may
contain 4-5 comment tags with important keywords while a smaller
one may contain 2-3. Construct a few sentences using your
important keywords. Do not insert keywords one after another
separated with commas. Convention is that this tag contains
sentences to help webmasters. You are advised not to repeat
the same sentences in any two comments present in your site
although you can repeat the keywords. Try not to exceed 45
words in a comment tag so that it looks like a comment. You
can make as many sentences as you want as long as you remember
your limit. Not to mention, the sentences you construct in
the comment tag should make some sense with what is there
in the content of the web page.
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