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The title isn't necessary for image SEO or for users with screen readers. It can be useful in some cases, though, as it lets you provide information when a user brings their mouse over the image.

Almost always. Alt tags are supposed to convey the same information as the image. (essentially, alt data is just inline document text) Titles describe the image. This means many decorative image elements ought to have no/null alt data set.

Summary ALT textTitle textIn other wordsALT attribute, Alternative textTitle attributeWhat is it?Text rendering by search enginesText that users see after hovering over the imageIs it always necessary?YesNoIs it important for image optimization?YesNo1 more row ?

This can be done by enclosing the image and text in an HTML ?div?. Then make the position of div ?relative? and that of text ?absolute?.

That being said, the image title is not used for search ranking, so it is not quite as important to optimize for. But if you're an obsessive SEO completionist and want to optimize everything for the best in W3C optimization, by all means, do include both the alt text and title text for your image.

Alt Text is an invisible description of a photo that a screen reader can read out loud with audio to people who are blind or visually impaired. Most social media platforms have an option to edit a photo and add alt text. A short description of what the photo contains is all that is needed.

That being said, the image title is not used for search ranking, so it is not quite as important to optimize for. But if you're an obsessive SEO completionist and want to optimize everything for the best in W3C optimization, by all means, do include both the alt text and title text for your image.