Google: Alt Text Is Important For SEO

Aug 9, 2021 - 7:11 am 0 by

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Newsflash, Google's Martin Splitt said that "alt text is important for SEO too." I did ask him how important, but he would not disclose that information.

Here is more of the context around this on Twitter.

So I had to ask:

I know, this is not new, here are some of our other stories on this topic over the years:

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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