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We start with alt tags, really simple, and really
effective. As an example, see the 2 images below. One is
search engine and user friendly, the other isn't.
Image A
 Image
B
By hovering over both images ( in Internet Explorer ) only
the right hand image, has hover text , we call ALT text. ALT
meaning alternative, in case the image cannot be displayed,
this text is displayed. Also the name of the image is
important too. See the code below, used to generate Image A
and image B
Image A code:
<img border="0" src="http://30.com.au/images/10089567a_dscn.gif"
width="82" height="37">
Image B code:
<img border="0" src="http://30.com.au/images/gallery.jpg"
width="82" height="37" alt="Gallery , image galleries. View
images our users have uploaded.">
As you can see, Image B , has been saved with correctly
formatted name, that search engines can understand. Also it
has ALT text, to describe, what the image is and what it is
there to do.
By ensuring any images you add are correctly named, makes
your life easier, and also your users, but more importantly
the search engines, can understand your images, and
prominence is said to be given to Images with correctly
adopted ALT tags.
Also, check out the url path to your images:
Example:
<img border="0" src="../images/gallery.jpg" width="82"
height="37" alt="Gallery , image galleries. View images our
users have uploaded.">
<img border="0" src="http://30.com.au/images/gallery.jpg"
width="82" height="37" alt="Gallery , image galleries. View
images our users have uploaded.">
The 2 examples
above one uses a relative url, within this Image tag.
The other uses an absolute url within its Image tag.
The easiest option, normally, is to use relative url's.
i.e.; "../images/gallery.jpg" rather than absolute
url's i.e.; "http://30.com.au/images/gallery.jpg"
Relative Url's Relative Url's point to a file local to the web
page you are on. This makes it easier to make changes,
globally to a webpage with out fundamentally buggering up
the path to your images.
Absolute Url's Absolute Url's are direct url's pointing to the
image file on your web server. Just imagine you don't own
the image, but you want to display someone else's ? Then you
would need the entire url path i.e.; the "http/www.websitename.com/images/gallery.jpg"
bit
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Page contents: Learn what ALT tags are, how to use them, and what are
relative and absolute URLS.
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