Alt and title tags on images

[CompucastWeb]

For SEO, are alt and title tags still worth the effort? Or have they gone the way of meta keywords?

I can see having alt tags for visually impaired reasons, but at this point is there any SEO reason to use them?

[jesse-landry]

Just to clarify - the topic creator was asking about image title tags, not regular title tags, and my response was that the title tags embedded in images do not carry much weight. The alt tag itself carries a bit more.

Of course a page title tag is probably the single most important thing on a page... But that wasn't what was asked here.

Just wanted to clarify so my original post wasn't misunderstood.

Thanks all!

[BenjaminBeck]

Onsite optimization is part of the foundation for getting a page to rank for the keywords you want.

Optimizing the title tag & alt tags are some of the top ways to optimize for onsite. (See 2013 Ranking Factors)

I've had clients who received high quality links to a page, but their rankings didn't increase until after the title tags were updated.

[FRUTIKO]

All tags have some value as Jesse said. Even we are trying to test are meta keywords efficient or not.

WE have some insights that google ignore them, even sharing that keywords with competitors isnt that ideal and they are extra code on page but here at Czech Republic we have a popular local search engine  named seznam which might still give some value for meta keywords and we are willingly to understand do they still work or not before we delete the existing ones or add new ones.

Frutiko Team

[SErOb]

Cover all the bases!

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/114016?hl=en

[jesse-landry]

Alt tags still carry benefit. Title tags not so much. That said, be wary of keyword stuffing.