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.
Is there an SEO benefit to having alt text ?
— Stephen Shankland (@stshank) August 3, 2021
Yep, alt text is important for SEO too! ☺️
— Martin Splitt ???????? (@g33konaut) August 3, 2021
So I had to ask:
— Martin Splitt ???????? (@g33konaut) August 3, 2021
I know, this is not new, here are some of our other stories on this topic over the years:
Forum discussion at Twitter.