Image Alt tags and/or Captions?

[cookies186]

We have a number of Websites and heard that placing a small caption of text below/above the image with relative Keywords in the text if it makes sense or simply add text that describes the image will help with SEO because you can be a little more descriptive with a caption than you can with the ALT tag. So can or should we do both a caption and an Image ALT tag?
Thanks for your help !

[mintdesignnz]

You can use both the caption and <IMG> Alt text attributes for optimizing sites. That's the recommended optimization technique for images.

[maryparker]

Yes its better if you use both caption and image Alt tag. This gives the search engines a better option to crawl the targeted keywords.

[Click SSL]

Alt tags alternate text associated with a web page graphic that gets displayed when the Internet user hovers the mouse over the graphic. Optimizing images is becoming more and more important in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for websites. The ALT attribute is a critical step that is often overlooked. This can be a lost opportunity for better rankings.

[YooHee]

putting some alt tags and captions on your images can really help, because, as we all know that search engine spiders can read or crawl images, alt tags helps the bots to crawl and index your images....

also your indexed images can help you to have organic traffic for your website through image search on search engines...

[seenathkumar]

Yes both alt tags and Captions are helpful this can help to rank your image on google image which can generate some visitors.

[thesslstore]

By Placing a ALT Text google crawler easily found your content with images because crawlers can't read images as text it is crawl images alt text as image identifying.

It is very help full in SEO.

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[predeepwithu]

Al tag is use for image optimization in a Google Search engines so alt tag is best.