Image and Alt Tag Optimization
- Name the image and relate the naming convention to the content on the page
- Place your keyword in the text near the image (this also helps with Google image search)
- Use an alt attribute in the image tag with your keyword
- Use a description attribute in the image tag with your keywordBut beware – too much keyword stuffing will be seen by the search engines as a bad thing and you may be penalised for it
SEO friendly images is a wordpress plugin which allows you to automatically add alt tags into your images using the preference you set on the option field.
Download SEO friendly images plugin
Upload the folder in your plugin folder and activate the plugin.
under the SEO friendly image options set the preferences.
If you use the proper title for your images you can use “%name” attribute else you can use “%name %title” attribute.
There is alt text inside the HTML tag that loads the image. Search engines can’t see the image, but they can get some information about the image both from the alt text and the filename. The HTML code for that image looks like this:
<img src="https://siteboxproject.files.wordpress.com/hostel-dorm-beds.png" alt=”Dorm beds at a hostel” />
Kevin D Burt 