Alt tag only in frontend html?

  • Resolved notrainy

    (@notrainy)


    2 years, 3 months ago

    Hi
    Can you explain the warning message you receive once you start the plugin process please?
    The explanation doesn’t make sense to me. Since I though search engines can read frontend alt tags?
    “Alt texts added/created by BIALTY plugin ARE NOT added to MEDIA LIBRARY (which is useless as not visible to search engines). All image Alt text are added to HTML code, on frontend. Please follow instructions below, at “How to check Alt Text now?”, to see your settings applied.”

    In my opinion alt tags in the media library are not useless, this is conflicting info with word press since this appears in the source code. Is this what you mean?? As it’s very off putting for someone to use this, are you saying that frontend html alt tags run by Bialty cannot be read?

    Thanks to explain

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  • Plugin Author Pagup

    (@pagup)

    Hi,

    Thank you for contacting our support.

    About your question, the reason why we added this note is that some people were expecting our plugin to add Alt tags to the Media Library, in backend, including to images not currently used with content on Frontend (which would be useless – as long as an image, uploaded to the Media library, is not added to a post/page/product page, it has no use for SEO or search engines).

    (Also, please note that the backend – CMS – is not accessible to search engines)

    Also, as you may know, an image can be used multiple times within a website. Using the same Alt tags for the same images but with different content will confuse search engines (not talking about accessibility here) and will be of no use for SEO. You need your Alt tags to be related to the main topic (keyword) of a page to reinforce the meaning of a content (in order to make sure that search engines understand properly the essence of a post/page/product page).

    That’s why we decided to add Alt tags (based on Yoast/Rank Math keywords | Post title, etc.) directly within the HTML code for each page/post were they were identified.

    Hope it helps.

    Regards

    Thread Starter notrainy

    (@notrainy)

    Thank you, I definitely agree with the first point completely and I get the reasons, along with images not being used, as this is pointless, may be I misunderstood the sentence. Probably. I also understand the only way that backend alt can be deployed is through the manual way. Very long winded. And I get the duplication – this is the downside and limitation, I read this as saying that the frontend image alt is 100% readable by Google in that case as this is the only logical way round it

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