Keyword Stuffing in Alt Tags!

[VertiStudio]

Hello,

I have on a main page over 50 images. The first page i want to optimize it for MAINKW (let's say).

Now, if i use in the alt tags "MAINKW KW1", "MAINKW KW2", "MAINKW KW3" ... "MAINKW KW50" then Google may say that i stuff the MAINKW in that page?

Those images are reprezentative for main Categories and i have direct links to them from the main page with the anchors KW1, KW2...KW50.

[Netlogiq]

Salut Stefanita,

"Keyword stuffed" alt tags might look spammy. Use the alt to describe your image - give a relevant description while using the keywords. You can use around 140 characters and you can actually rank for long tail keywords and be found on google images. You can make the first image relevant for your main keywords, but after that just make relevant descriptive text.

[My-Favourite-Holiday-Cottages]

If this occours as part of labeling the images naturaly, I suspect you'll avoid penalisation (but I wouldn't expect you to get a bonus for MINKW, you might for the long tail however)

Generaly, I would be carful using alt tags for pure SEO benifit. They are there to help with accessability, and you risk losing that if your alt doesn't describe you image. (or at least most of them)

[mediabase]

Hi Stefanita,

First of all Keeping in mind that the alt-text is meant to be an alternative text that could be shown in place of the image (and accordingly, it's indexed as part of the page), it could be confusing to see the exact same text over and over again," said Mu. "Search engines generally aren't impressed by seeing the same text that many times, so I'd simplify that a bit by perhaps using the full text for the main product image, but not reusing it for all of the smaller detail-images."

Using alt tags is definitely best practice but keyword stuffing (anywhere really) is not. Keep alt tags short, descriptive and relevant to the image they are being used for and you'll all but guarantee that alt tags help (and not hurt) your rankings.

editor's note: see the complete post at http://www.websitemagazine.com/content/blogs/posts/archive/2011/04/26/keyword-stuffing-alt-tags-for-google.aspx

By doing the above mentioned it leads to keywords stuffing.

.Filling alt attributes with keywords ("keyword stuffing") results in a negative user experience, and may cause your site to be perceived as spam. Instead, focus on creating useful, information-rich content that uses keywords appropriately and in context. We recommend testing your content by using a text-only browser such as Lynx.

Hope that you found the solution.

[VertiStudio]

Thank you for the answer Harald.

At first it seemed right to me to have nice alt tags. But now i am sure that it is text which can be read both by humans and engines and it is not ok to stuff those KW.

I will rewrite them. I am curious though if i'll rank better after that.