Alt tag for thumbinal foto?

[chalet]

Hi,

We are implementing alt tag's for our website. We are wondering if it is handy to implement alt tag's for thumbinal pictures?

Kind regards,

Jeroen

[Justen_H]

Do you mean alt images for thumbnails that exist alongside the original images? If so, you could automatically generate the thumbnails by defining the resize. The image alt for the thumbnail remains on the thumbnail as well.

See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/blacklight-development/A7bHiIm5QFA

[chalet]

Hi Justen_h,

Thanks for your answer. I red that some SEO's leave an alt tag for the thumbinal pictures and that some SEO's put a different name for the thumbinal pictures. What is your opinion the best idea?

Kind regrads,

Jeroen

[Justen_H]

Hi,

I would add other descriptive alt tags. Keep in mind that alt tags are also displayed when your image doesn't load for one reason or another. In your case, i wouldn't stuff these with keywords as you are in a commercial branche. I would keep the keyword alts for the main image.

I also noted that your image filenames arent optimized (on the Edelweiss chalet) - i would consider renaming them first before you worry about thumbnail alts. You could consider naming the chalet "Zell-am-see-Oostenrijk-Chalet-Edelweiss.jpg" for example.

Hope this is useful