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Photo Alt Tags Not Showing Up When Hovering on Site

Names of pictures I have put in the "alt tag" cell (by using advanced and then replacing the word "picture" with name of my photo) are not showing up when hovering over image when viewed on either Windows Edge or Chrome. Anyone have any ideas what's going on? Images are not showing up on image search either.  I've submitted my site map and can see Google has crawled my site and accepted about 1/2 of the pages (although no errors were found), but images are nowhere to be found even when I put the name of the photo in quotes. Working hard on SEO here and getting nowhere fast.

I understand the images in our store don't show up on search because they don't have alt tags.  But my REGULAR photos DO have alt tags and STILL are not showing up.  Can anyone help me on this?

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Thanks Adam, I'm sure that's it. Also, photos are starting to appear in google search ... finally.

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Sorry to hear you're having trouble. Do you have an example image where the image isn't showing in specific search results, @LongHoursHere?

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Thanks Adam for your help.  My concern is when I view my web site using Chrome or Windows Edge, hovering over the photos doesn't show anything.  Nothing. The little "hand" is there showing me the "link" is ready to be utilized, but nothing else.  I've gone to other sites who have posted in the community to see if their "alt tags" are working and they appear to be working fine.  You can go to my site (a work in progress for sure), and try hovering over a photo and you will see although I've "named" my photos, nothing is showing up. Site is www.rainydayrainbows.com . If I've named the photo by clicking on the photo, scrolling down to "advanced" and then replacing the word "picture" with the name of my photo, shouldn't THAT show up when someone is on my site and hovering over the photo?  Am I missing something here?

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I think you're mixing up the Alt attribute with Title attribute.  Alt text is used when an image can't be displayed for some reason, and it's also used for SEO purposes by Google.  The Title attribute is shown when something is moused-over in a browser.  Some browsers might treat an Alt tag like a Title tag, although that's an extra feature of that browser.

You can read a little more about the purpose of each attribute here:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_img_alt.asp

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Thanks Adam, I'm sure that's it. Also, photos are starting to appear in google search ... finally.
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I'm having the same problem even I read your thread. I have my photos linked but I canot get how to label the photos. Hovering just points out the link. Any help ??

Home page photos  at IonaRealEstate.com . TIA

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If you're linking your images, the URL you're linking to is probably going to take precedence by your browser.  I'm not sure that you could have the title show instead without removing the link.

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Dear Adam,

As the Library Media Technology Specialist for Madison West High School, I am very disappointed that Weebly will not display the alt tags on my site's pictures. We have a number of blind students enrolled at our school, and it is frustrating that the tags do not display.  After reading this thread and a number of other sources, I discovered that I might try using title tags instead, but I could not find this option on Weebly.  Finally, though I was loath to do so, I determined to change the HTML code for every picture by hand so that the tags would display.  I was even more disappointed to learn that I could not do this in Weebly, either.  

Weebly is such an amazing product in so many respects, and I would prefer to keep using it for my school's library site.  However, since the product lacks basic consideration for people with disabilities, I am not sure whether I want to keep using it.  I am also not sure whether I will feel comfortable recommending it to others, something I did wholeheartedly in the past.  I urge you to consider changing the way the alt tags render and/or giving users the opportunity to input title tags or edit HTML code themselves.

Sincerely,

Laura Frost

Library Media Technology Specialist

West High School

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Hello Laura!

Just to confirm, those are images that are also linked to specific aspects of the site? You should be able to edit the Alt text as normal in the Advanced tab otherwise.

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I second that. And I would like to have Product images show up with mouseover title descriptions.... is this some upgrade option?
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Hello Adam,

I have put the alt text ( in advanced section) in all images but when i do a SEO diagnose on google webmaster tools, seoquake or any other SEO platform the results are always negative, "some images have not alt attribute". For example, in my homepage http://www.jajaprintingsolutions.com/, the message is: "12 images missing alt text". 

Please help me figure this out, because this is a huge SEO factor for search engines.

Thank you

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Do you know which images they say are missing the tags? Those underneath the "product mix" headline all have alt tags.

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Hello Adam,

Thank you for your fast response,

I tried also with woorank analyzer and i discovered that the slide presentation (w/ captions) and the logo are the elements without alt attribute. Is there anything we can do about this issue?

By the way, can you tell how can i improve my site speed, the images optimization are not enough.

Thank you for your time.

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Ok, thanks for clarifying. Those elements don't currently use ALT tags, although it's something we're considering adding for obvious reasons. Regarding image optimization, I would recommend trying to keep the number on any single page to a reasonable amount. The images themselves are already compressed somewhat, so you wouldn't really want to do it much more or they will lose quality.

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Need help along the same lines.  Today I learned that none of my photos on my website had "alt tabs".  So I started with my home page and went to the advanced option on each picture and then changed the text to somethiing to do with the picture. I published the information and then went to my website.  When I did a control "U" on my home page, the SEO does not show any recognization of my having done an alt tag on any of the images.  The website is www.victoriangardenscattery.com.  Would appreciate it any help.  This has really been hurting my rankings on Google search.  Thanks. Susan

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I see ALT tags for your images, @victoriangarden:

image

That should be readable by Google or any other search engine. The text that sometimes pops up when you leave a mouse over an image is a little different. Some browsers will do that with the ALT attribute, some browsers want to use a TITLE attribute instead.

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Thank you Adam for letting me know.  I appreciate it.

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Hi buddy i am also facing the image alt tag issue the seoquake is showing 7 images without alt tag on my home page i have checked multiple times i have added the alt text in all the images of my homepage but the seoquake is still showing 7 images without alt tag. This is my site link  kindly check it i really need a solution of this problem for seo.

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