News!! Telling Google, As Well As Visually-Impaired People, Close The Pictures Inward Your Blog

This article is well-nigh why as well as how to attach keywords as well as related text to the pictures inwards your weblog posts.  This is helpful for both search engine optimisation (SEO), as well as for making your weblog accessible to people who purpose screen-reader software.

Pictures as well as your blog

Blogger has a set of tools for putting pictures into your blog, including several options for putting images into posts or gadgets. 

In most cases, the other content inwards each post provides plenty data for Google's indexing tools to know what the post is aobut.

But if your weblog mainly has photos, your posts may non accept plenty telephone commutation words to larn properly indexed.  And fifty-fifty if the image-indexing tools produce roughly car recognition, a description of a moving-picture present written yesteryear a human beingness  will almost ever survive better.

Also, if your blog-viewers may include visually impaired people or others who purpose screen-reader software, yous request to mean value well-nigh how good your content volition move for them:  if yous pose telephone commutation data within images but non inwards the text, as well as then they won't survive able to larn this data inwards whatever way.

These 2 skillful reasons for adding "alternate text" to your pictures - as well as at that topographic point may survive more.

What's fifty-fifty ameliorate is that Blogger at in ane lawsuit has a tool for to larn far slow to develop this.

How to add together captions as well as alt-text to your pictures

Add the moving-picture present to your Post.

In Compose mode, float your most over the picture.   This volition present the picture-editing-toolbar, similar this:

Choose the Properties option.

This opens a dialog box where yous tin enter

• A title - this is shown when a visitor hovers their mouse over the picture
• Alt text - this is kept inwards the background, as well as exclusively displayed to people who (for whatever reason) cannot run into the picture.

What your readers volition see

People who read your weblog on line, either alongside a criterion browser or an RSS feed reader, won't run into anything different, until they hover over the photo.   When they hover, they volition run into the text yous pose into the Title field.


People who read your weblog in their email (because you've offered a subscribe-by-email option) may run into the alt text instead of the picture, depending on what setting they accept inwards their e-mail system.


People who purpose screen reader software volition accept the text that yous added read out to them inwards the green agency that their software works.

And most importantly, search engines volition run into the text yous added, as well as hopefully the volition purpose it inwards indexing your post.

Other Alternatives:

Picasa as well as Picasa-web-albums captions tin survive included in slideshows (provided yous don't purpose the Blogger gadget), but aren't included alongside private pictures. 

And the Post as well as Pages editor also has an Add Caption option on the photograph toolbar, although I exclusively recommend using  if you're comfortable editing HTML, because it puts the moving-picture present into a table, as well as thence to deed it within the post yous request to edit the code, non but drag-and-drop it.

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