Image Title Attribute and Search Engines

For some reason I’d assumed that search engines would be more interested in the image’s title attribute than the alt tag. I guess because I’ve always used my alt tags to briefly summarize the image, the title tags to make a quick comment on the image.

An old discussion that seemed authoritative to me at the time instilled the habit.

On Search Engine Watch research shows the alt tag gets indexed but search engines ignore the title attributes when applied to images.

ALT Tags & SEO

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