Sometimes web designers break up a single image into slices of images. They do this for many reasons, but the question is – can you optimize that image for image search?

John from Google chimed in about that in a Google Webmaster Help thread. John basically said, when you have this situation, you want to assign the alt attribute to only of the the images and not all the additional pieces of the image.

Of course, John doesn’t recommend slicing up a single image into multiple images for a few reasons.

John said:

Have you run into this?

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.