5:30 Design Tip

Did you know that a search engine will look at what you have in the alt attribute of an image tag?

Some people will not put captions on photos with a person’s name in it. Instead they will just put something like “Baby and Nana together at Christmas.” However, then in the alt attribute to the image tag they will put “Little Johnny Someone and Nana Someone.” A search engine will find that as part of your page.

You should always use the alt attribute to describe what is in a picture, just be as vague there as you are in the captions.

Tomorrow, the two ways to tell a search engine not to index your site.