Images and keywords

Hi @unwantedlife

We understand you are encountering the ‘keyphrase in image alt attribute’ assessment in the content analysis.

Could you let us know how you are adding the focus keyphrase to the alt text of the images?

We do know that if you use the default WordPress block editor, you can follow the steps here in order to add the alt text to the image block – https://yoast.com/image-seo-alt-tag-and-title-tag-optimization/#how-to

Hi,

I add the alt text the same way I’ve always done since January 2019, and in all the other images in the other 9 articles I was working on at the same time. I uploaded an image by clicking add media, upload the image, and add text to the text box that’s for ‘alt text’.

If I need to update an image, then I click it and pick edit, then change the text in the ‘alternative text’ box.

Adding the alt text isn’t the problem, yoast is refusing to acknowledge the alt texts on 1 of the 9 articles I’ve been working on

@unwantedlife Thanks for your reply.

Can you please provide us with an example URL of one of the pages where this issue is occurring, and let us know what you have for the page’s focus keyphrase, as well as what you have set for the ‘Alternative Text’ field for the image in question, so that we can try to replicate the issue and check into this further?

Hi,

It’s not a published post, it’s waiting to be scheduled once this issue has been fixed. And as I’ve said, it’s only this one post it’s happened to.

This is the only post since January 2019 this has happened to, and I’ve done the same thing time and time again for all my images for all the posts. No issues until just this one post.

Two of the three images contain the keyword, imposter syndrome. your plugin refuses to recognise it the keyword in the alt texts of the two images, even when I copy and paste the keyword from the yoast keyword text box.

You likely won’t be able to reproduce it because it didn’t happen with the 5 posts I drafted after this one or the 190 posts before it

Hi,

You’ve mentioned that you’ve added the focus keyphrase of ‘imposter syndrome’ in the alt text of the images for that post but the content analysis is still showing the inaccurate content analysis.

You’ve also mentioned that this occurs only for this one particular post and not on the other posts on your site. We would probably need to investigate further as to why it’s occurring only for this post in particular, but we are unable to do so over these public forums. You may want to consider Yoast SEO Premium so we can provide you with premium personal support and possibly take a closer look at this.

Otherwise, we recommend performing a conflict check, just to rule out that there might be a conflict with another plugin or theme on your setup.

Hi,

There’s no conflict. So how do I get your plugin to work?

Hi @unwantedlife

Since you’ve mentioned that you’ve performed a conflict check (default WP theme and only Yoast SEO v17.4 enabled) and the issue still occurs, and that you’ve mentioned that it only occurs for this particular post and not for the others on your site, we recommend trying to see if you can replicate this on a staging site by copying all of the content from that post with the issue, and then trying it out on your staging site (with the same focus keyphrase) and see if you are able to replicate the issue.

If you are able to still replicate this on a staging site with the same default setup, you can file a bug report for our team by following the steps here.

Have you considered that maybe the issue is due to the hundred plus other posts that are also on the blog that your plugin will compare information with, rather than a plugin or theme, causing the issue?

The keywords are in the right places, your plugin just doesn’t want to work properly, but will that affect my actual SEO with Google or is it a bug that starts and ends with your plugin?

Hi @unwantedlife

Regarding the specific ‘keyphrae in image alt attributes’ assessment, it shouldn’t be affected by the other posts or pages on your blog, as the ‘keyphrase in image alt attributes’ should just check if the elected focus keyphrase is indeed in the alt text of the images on that specific post or page, and not the other posts on the blog.

You can learn more about it here – https://yoast.com/image-seo-alt-tag-and-title-tag-optimization/#assessment

It looks like it might be something we would need to investigate further on your specific setup, which we are unable to do so over these public forums. You may want to consider subscribing to Yoast SEO Premium so we can provide you with premium personal support.

Ok, so can you please answer my other question:

The keywords are in the right places, your plugin just doesn’t want to work properly, but will that affect my actual SEO with Google or is it a bug that starts and ends with your plugin and thus I don’t have to worry about it?

Hi,

We can’t confirm if the Yoast SEO plugin’s content analysis is inaccurate or if it is an actual ‘bug’ as we haven’t tried to reproduce the issue on this single post on your site where this occurs. We’d have to investigate based on the chosen focus keyphrase, what plugins and themes you have installed, and how you’ve added the image alt text to your images, in order to confirm this.

Otherwise, Google and the other crawlers should still be able to parse and scan the content on your website.

So the problem with your plugin won’t effect my real SEO score and crawlers like Google will be able to detect the keyword on the images that your plugin won’t?

Hi,

As mentioned, we’re unable to determine if this is an issue with the plugin (as it seems to only be occurring on this single post or page and not with the rest of your posts or pages) without taking a closer look at this within your site (which we are unable to do so over these public forums), but Google will still be able to parse and scan the content of that post or page, including the alt text and other metadata that you’ve set for your images in that post or page.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by Michael Ti?a.

We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

Hi,

Your plugin won’t recognise my keywork on another image, your plugin also claims I have 5 images when it’s only 3. How do I get your plugin to work?