Automatically Add Title and Alt Tag to Images : WordPress Image Optimization
Suppose you don’t know about Search engine Optimization for images and you haven’t optimized your images for then start doing image optimization immediately -
Inserting Title and Alternate Tag Automatically :
Google SEO Guide tells that alternate tag is useful when you are just putting images on the wordpress blog, Use title tag whenever you are linking the image to another webpage.
SEO-Friendly Images is the plugin designed to insert Title and Alternate Tag automatically to all the images just by specifying the required things.
Why we should use this plugin ?
- It automatically adds alternate and title tag to your images.
- Configuration is Simple.
- Automatically add the alternative and TITLE text to your images where you already don’t have either.
- Google reads alt tag from the image to identify the type of image. Suppose you are specifying the image related to Facebook then you should put something about Facebook as alternate tag.
Different Values to be specified in TITLE and ALT Tag
| Varaiable | Replaced by |
|---|---|
| %title | replaces post title |
| %name | replaces image file name (without extension) |
| %category | replaces post category |
| %tags | replaces post tags |
Significance of Putting TITLE and ALT Tags :
- Basically Alt tag describes your image for Image Search Agents.
- The alt attribute is an attribute of the img tag. It is alternative name of an image for non-visual browsers when they come across images.
- Clients or Visitors having low speed internet connection then it is useful to have alternate tag to specify the content of the image..