Alt text appearing below my image

  • On Chrome, the ALT text of my images do appear on below the image after “some time”, just like it shows here.

    After “some time” means that sometime they do not show, but when surf from tab to tab and come back to my site tab, I can find the Alt text being displayed on my site.

    Here is below the code I’m using, knowing that initially the code is provided by Amazon to display the image of their product and related links. I only added the content with Alt=””, that that was empty by default.

    Not sure if this is known bug or something “normal”? I would like to understand if this is a normal behavior and how to fix this if this is not the case.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • The image that is not displayed is from an Amazon ad counter. It is included, but not delivered by Amazon. Check which plugin is responsible for this and contact its developer.

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    (@yingscarlett)

    You can give threadi’s suggestion a try ??

    Thread Starter masterhealerwp

    (@masterhealerwp)

    @threadi and @yingscarlett, thank you.
    I’m kind of new to all this and a bit confused.

    I copy the links straight from the Amazon Partner Toolbar. This is a toolbar that appears at the top of Amazon web site when you join their affiliate program. I made a screenshot for you to see.

    So, the code is 100% copied from that Amazon toolbar. I just added the text to Alt=”” to respect good SEO practices.

    Unfortunately, your link does not lead to any destination. You are now talking about links that you have copied. Putting them in an alt attribute doesn’t give you any advantage. I guess you are more interested in adding ads to your page. Then you would have to include whole HTML code, if they should also contain images. You could probably say more about this if you could call your link.

    Thread Starter masterhealerwp

    (@masterhealerwp)

    Here is the link again. Hopefully it will work this time.

    It is not so much ads. I want amazon product image and the link to their product pages.
    Here the exact code snippet provided by the Amazon toolbar (the one I copied and pasted, as offered by the Amazon toolbar)

    <a href="https://www.amazon.fr/Atlas-Shiatsu-m%C3%A9ridiens-Wilfried-Rappenecker/dp/2224033389?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3PRW447EAGCN7&keywords=shiatsu+atlas&qid=1654356043&s=books&sprefix=shiatsu+atlas%2Cstripbooks%2C45&sr=1-1&linkCode=li2&tag=h70-21&linkId=3b55316839b53efd4bb0c32c26773666&language=fr_FR&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img border="0" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=2224033389&Format=_SL160_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=FR&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=h70-21&language=fr_FR" /></a><img src="https://ir-fr.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=h70-21&language=fr_FR&l=li2&o=8&a=2224033389" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" />

    Adding text for ALT=”” is better in terms of SEO. If I do not add text to ALT=””, the plugin Yoast SEO notices this and informs me that Google will penalize it for the overall SEO ranking note.

    The code consists of 2 images: once the visible image and once a tracking pixel. The latter is the one that cannot be loaded. Filling the alt attribute there won’t do you any good in terms of content, even if Yoast complains about it, because it’s only a 1×1 pixel small “image”, if at all, which has no relevance for SEO.

    Why exactly this pixel-counting image is not loaded, you would have to ask Amazon support. This is not something that is and can be influenced by WordPress or GeneratePress.

    Thread Starter masterhealerwp

    (@masterhealerwp)

    @threadi thanks for the explanation.

    Look, this is where I added my ALT text:

    <p align="center"><a href="https://www.a.fr/Shiatsu-Th%C3%A9orie-pratique-Carola-Beresford-Cooke/dp/2224035071?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=2G7M3MIA3RGIY&keywords=Th%C3%A9orie+et+pratique+du+shiatsu&qid=1654206885&sprefix=th%C3%A9orie+et+pratique+du+shiatsu%2Caps%2C336&sr=8-9&linkCode=li3&tag=h70-21&linkId=b48bda53a88b6f8288c6319615d72fce&ref_=as_li_ss_il" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener sponsored"><img border="0" src="//ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=2224035071&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=FR&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=h70-21"></a><img src="https://ir-fr.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=h70-21&l=li3&o=8&a=2224035071" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="meilleur livre shiatsu" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;"></p>

    If I understand well, I actually added it to the pixel image.
    I then just need to remove it and add it to the correct image, just before it.

    Thanks a lot for making this clear to me.

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