Same Alt tag on the images
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Can We have same alt tags on all the images? Below pages have images with same alt tag "astrologer Ravi sharma". I used name of the person on every image. before today, all images were shown in google images but today no image is there. any comment.
Like - http://www.astrologerravisharma.com/astrologer-ravi-sharma-photos/
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You are wasting a chance to get more text in your website, alt tags aren't worth much but all the same it a chance to get a keyword or relevant text in your site.
It may also be a bad signal to a search engine and they may no longer trust your alt tags when deciding what the image is about
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William has given some great points - remember what alt tags are for: They are for screen readers which are normally used by impaired users so try to make them descriptive e.g "astrologer Ravi sharma in X paper" "astrologer Ravi sharma on the moon" etc. It could be Google has looked at your images and thought you're trying to be sneaky and use the alt tags for SEo advantages rather than help your users. Follow Williams advice and I'm very sure you will be great!
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It's OK to have his name, just add more to it to differentiate the photos.
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Every image on the website is having "Ravi Sharma" (name of the person). that's why i used his name on every image. Should i change the alt tag or only need to add description to the images?
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I would tend to agree with William here. The objective of the alt tag is to help give context to the image if the image cannot be displayed. If you are able to describe the image in a way that relates to your post, you will be better off than trying to stuff keywords in the alt tag. If an image is related to the post, search engines (particularly google) should gain a contextual understanding which is better in the long run.
In my experience, I find that the more I try to "optimize images", the more unnatural they are. Again, we are trying to be natural and helpful.
Hope that helps.
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Try to be more descriptive than that in the alt tags. Quickly describe what the image is about. You never want to duplicate alt tags on different images, because those images are not the same. Alt tags are there to describe the image in a short, concise way.
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