Add alt text tags to Blogger images for SEO and Traffic

Add alt text tags to Blogger images for SEO and Traffic
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Image alt tag or alternative tag is an html attribute that explains what an image shows. Generally as a human we can see an image and can easily recognize that what is the image about. Suppose if you see an image with a cup of tea then you can easily recognize that. But what about search engine? Search engine is just like robot and it can read only text not image. So if you just upload image in Blog post then search engine can't read about the uploaded image. But if we add image alt tag then search robot can easily read that and can understand what is the image about.

Most of the Bloggers focus on Search engine optimization. But among them many bloggers skip the image optimization. For your kinds information there are millions of visitors are coming from Google image search engine every day. Zillions of user prefer image search instead of web search. Suppose if you  are looking for any latest movie's poster or Vector Graphics over the net and in this case if you search through the web then you have to click on every link for visit the website, after that you will able to see the poster or graphics. But if you do image search then Google will instantly display the post images and you can use that easily. But for displaying image on Google Image search engine search robot first read the image alt tag and after that it display there. So image alt tag is very important for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO)  and for driving traffic.


In this tutorial I will show you how to add Image Title and Alt tag inside Blogger Blog posts thus you can make your Blog image SEO friendly and can divert traffic from Google Image search engine.

The basic HTML attribute to add an Alt Tag in image is like below-
<img src="IMAGE URL HERE" alt="IMAGE DESCRIPTION" />
In above line replace IMAGE URL HERE with your Image link and you have to write image tag or description on IMAGE DESCRIPTION before the closing />. But this technique is general. Now I will show you, how to add image alt tag in Blogger Blog Post Editor?

Image alt tag in Blogger Blog Post Editor (Compose Mode)

For adding Image alternative tag in Blogger Post editor just follow the below steps-

Step 1 Sign in to your Blogger Account and go to Dashboard

Step 2 From the Dashboard, click New Post. Or you can click on New Post from Blog Overview.

Step 3 Now Blogger Post Editor will open and upload an image now.

Step 4 Now Click on uploaded image and a pop up Image Properties window will appear. Now click on Properties link.

insert image description

Step 5 Now insert the Image title in Title Text field And in ALT text field write the Image description. For example purpose I have inserted A Mug Of Coffee  in Title Text field And in ALT text field  I have written Coffee Mug. Now search engine will understand this is an image of Coffee Mug. And finally Click on OK button.

That's it you have successfully added the Image alt text and now publish your Blog post. Now Google search robot can read the image and can understand about the image.

Image alt tag in Blogger Blog Post Editor (HTML Mode)

Alternatively we can add Image alternative tag in HTML view. This is pretty simple. The above tricks has done on Compose mode. So now click on HTML view from Blogger post editor.
You will see the code like below. And you will see the same image link appeared 2 times. First image link is associated with the image, the second one is the code for showing an image on Blog post.

add image alt tag
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknTayDh8bW6N51Wde6d8FsUZSEAYVv-WQInSwhpH6OuiOPVn2Rj23_4KCDl4-DP_GzcWJRBZiawvq1MoY-JXAIiZiBFP84oGr30opkiXN3hosZ6kejtJiOKm8VBJZBctoxKUcGJdxdmk/s400/blog-coffee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src=" https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknTayDh8bW6N51Wde6d8FsUZSEAYVv-WQInSwhpH6OuiOPVn2Rj23_4KCDl4-DP_GzcWJRBZiawvq1MoY-JXAIiZiBFP84oGr30opkiXN3hosZ6kejtJiOKm8VBJZBctoxKUcGJdxdmk/s400/blog-coffee.jpg" /></a></div>
Now I will add the Image alt tag with second image link.
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href=" https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknTayDh8bW6N51Wde6d8FsUZSEAYVv-WQInSwhpH6OuiOPVn2Rj23_4KCDl4-DP_GzcWJRBZiawvq1MoY-JXAIiZiBFP84oGr30opkiXN3hosZ6kejtJiOKm8VBJZBctoxKUcGJdxdmk/s400/blog-coffee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src=" https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjknTayDh8bW6N51Wde6d8FsUZSEAYVv-WQInSwhpH6OuiOPVn2Rj23_4KCDl4-DP_GzcWJRBZiawvq1MoY-JXAIiZiBFP84oGr30opkiXN3hosZ6kejtJiOKm8VBJZBctoxKUcGJdxdmk/s400/blog-coffee.jpg" alt="SHORT DESCRIPTION OF IMAGE/POST USING SOME KEYWORDS"/></a></div>
That's it. This is very simple. Now switch to Compose mode and publish your post.  Your Blog post image is now successfully optimized for search engine. And when anybody make query on image search then your image may appear on Google Image search engine. As a result your Blog site can receive big chunk of traffic.

coffee mug

For testing your image alternative tag just visit your Blog post and mouse over on image and see image title has appeared.
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