Alt Tags Spam?

[bbuzbek]

I have a site, on which you can search different cities, states and for each city you can see up to 8 images, can I give each image same Alt Tag? or will that be considered spam?

example. If all images of Los Angeles, each of 8 images will have alt tag Los Angeles City.

Thnx for help

[wilderness]

Alt tags (contrary to what many will tell you) are indexed and utilized by SE's.

If your going to go through the effort of utilizing alt tags for images?
Why not do it properly (enhancing your site and/or pages) and give each image it's focus?

[bbuzbek]

because all of them are pulled from DB and our IT team doesn't want to go in and change everything manually (talking about thousands of images) so they want to run some software to make all of them same name from same location.

[agerhart]

what you describe won't be considered "spam", but I agree with wilderness...you would be better served spending the time to tag each one individually.