SEO question
 

Does the ALT tag for a linked image hold the same amount of weight as the Anchor text of a link?

Chris

depends what are you trying to do, alt tag in img can have even more weight, for example stuff one page with "few" pictures with same anchor text and that page will pop on google pretty fast(every img can be linked), but if you are thinking about banner for example instead of hardlink, they are having basically the same weight as hardlink

Yea my wifes craft blog gets alot of ppl linking to her using her banner code she provided and I noticed she never put an ALT tag in the image code all these ladies are copy and pasting into their blogs

Personally i would put the alt tag in the img code, as well i would do the speeding of page loading time as much as possible, it really helps with might g.

With an image it's always wise to use an alt tag.

If you link an image, better to use a title= tag, but use an alt as well - they have different functions.

For a text link, use a title= tag, it has better value in text search than a text link without one, and has no comparative value to the alt or title tag for an image search.

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There is no way to know that for sure unless you work for Google, but they are probably close in value.

True.

They did release a lot of crap about their algo for years to fight spamming and bombing...

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i dont know for sure., but imho, it does hold a lesser weight than link.

Do the extra work... People who do seem to get paid more.

text is king

alt tag < real anchor text

you could choose any alt tag for images without "irritating" your users and so it makes it easy to cheat google with "missleading" alt tags and thats why google gives them less relevance compared to real anchor texts