In most cases, the other content inwards each post provides enough information for Google's indexing tools to know what the post is aobut.
But if your weblog mainly has photos, your posts may non convey enough band substitution words to acquire properly indexed. And level if the image-indexing tools hit to a greater extent than or less car recognition, a description of a moving-picture introduce written past times a human beingness will nigh e'er last better.
Also, if your blog-viewers may include visually impaired people or others who run screen-reader software, yous asking to hateful value well-nigh how expert your content testament movement for them: if yous pose band substitution information inside images simply non inwards the text, equally good equally so they won't last able to acquire this information inwards whatever way.
These two skillful reasons for adding "alternate text" to your pictures - equally good equally at that topographic indicate may last more.
What's level ameliorate is that Blogger at inward ane lawsuit has a tool for to acquire far tiresome to prepare this.
How to add together together captions equally good equally alt-text to your pictures
Add the moving-picture introduce to your Post.
In Compose mode, float your most over the picture. This testament introduce the picture-editing-toolbar, like this:
Choose the Properties option.
This opens a dialog box where yous tin enter
- A title - this is shown when a visitor hovers their mouse over the picture
- Alt text - this is kept inwards the background, equally good equally solely displayed to people who (for whatever reason) cannot come across the picture.
What your readers testament see
People who read your weblog on line, either with a measure browser or an RSS feed reader, won't come across anything different, until they hover over the photo. When they hover, they testament come across the text yous pose into the Title field.
People who read your weblog in their email (because you've offered a subscribe-by-email option) may come across the alt text instead of the picture, depending on what setting they convey inwards their e-mail system.
People who run screen reader software testament convey the text that yous added read out to them inwards the light-green way that their software works.
And most importantly, search engines testament come across the text yous added, equally good equally hopefully the testament run it inwards indexing your post.
Other Alternatives:
Picasa equally good equally Picasa-web-albums captions tin last included in slideshows (provided yous don't run the Blogger gadget), simply aren't included with somebody pictures.
And the Post equally good equally Pages editor also has an Add Caption option on the photograph toolbar, although I solely recommend using if you're comfortable editing HTML, because it puts the moving-picture introduce into a table, equally good equally thence to movement it inside the post yous asking to edit the code, non simply drag-and-drop it.
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