SEO Tycoon

**jacks smith** · 10-22-2010, 02:54 AM

Hello friends,
what is the use of title tag in image ?, it is different to ALT tag or equal it, means what is the role of title tag in image ? , We should use it or not.

**fresk** · 10-22-2010, 06:16 AM

i think it is equal to title and tag if we compare it to as a page.

**nehacct** · 10-22-2010, 09:13 AM

It takes some importance in promotion.

**Stani** · 10-22-2010, 10:46 AM

Alt is meant to be alt information for those who have disabled images in their browsers. Title – provides info about the image.

I think that they are useful for visitors and you should fill that tags and include your relevant keywords in both… but stay away from duplication.

Some more advices

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...&answer=114016
http://foliovision.com/2008/03/26/seo-google-images

**chrishirst** · 10-22-2010, 12:19 PM

It is a title ATTRIBUTE and search engines DO NOTuse it for anything.

**Social-Media** · 04:21 PM

LOL Chrishirst... That is a pet peave of mine... People don't seem to know the difference between an element, an attribute, and a tag... It's only a "tag" if you're talking specifically about the syntax used to open or close an HTML "element".

For example, "<a href="URL">my link text</a>" is an anchor "ELEMENT". "href" is an "ATTRIBUTE" of the anchor element. And </a> is the closing or ending "TAG" for the anchor element.

@OP The title ATTRIBUTE of the IMG ELEMENT is supposed to contain any text you want to appear when someone hovers their mouse over the image.

The alt ATTRIBUTE of the IMG ELEMENT is supposed to describe what is contained in the image so that those with images disabled or those with accessibility needs (blind people with screen readers) can visualize what the image looked like (for example, "White cat playing with a ball of yarn").

FYI... IE will display the ALT attribute value as hover text if there is no TITLE attribute present on the IMG element. Other browsers will only show hover text if the TITLE attribute is present.

**chrishirst** · 10-22-2010, 04:24 PM

Aye it's certainly a pet hate

**webmaster.9839** · 10-23-2010, 06:50 AM

alt tag is important for images and title for links

**chrishirst** · 10-23-2010, 08:55 AM

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Is it that they can't read English or don't want to read and learn???????

**reliable-seo** · 10-24-2010, 11:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Social-Media

For example, "<a href="URL">my link text</a>" is an anchor "ELEMENT". "href" is an "ATTRIBUTE" of the anchor element. And </a> is the closing or ending "TAG" for the anchor element.

@OP The title ATTRIBUTE of the IMG ELEMENT is supposed to contain any text you want to appear when someone hovers their mouse over the image.

The alt ATTRIBUTE of the IMG ELEMENT is supposed to describe what is contained in the image so that those with images disabled or those with accessibility needs (blind people with screen readers) can visualize what the image looked like (for example, "White cat playing with a ball of yarn").

I agree with you and this is what I too suppose.