The alt tag should be used for all graphics on your blog if you want search engines to index them. It is also a nice courtesy for your readers in the event the image doesn't load at least they have a description of what the picture is. I posted earlier about using the alt tag for graphics used on blogs. Under the Blogger old editor the alt tag is there in the image html as:
alt=""
A couple of weeks ago I opted to allow Amazon links* on my blogs which resulted in Blogger changing my blogs over to their updated editor. There are a few great features with the updated editor some of which I am really enjoying. However, in their ultimate wisdom Blogger for some reason removed the automatic alt tag. This is most annoying because now when I add an image I have to go into the HTML and manually input the alt tag. If you are using the updated editor after adding an image click on Edit HTML tag in the editor. Scroll to where you see:
Insert your alt tag as alt="your image description" after img leaving a space after img and before border. Continue composing in HTML or in Compose tag to finish your post.
*My views on using Amazon will be the subject of a future post.
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