In part one of SEO your pictures for Google Image search, we took a look at ‘non-blog’ sites and how to optomise pictures with the HTML image tag and surrounding words. As a reminder, the image tag written as…
<img src="my-image.png" alt="alternative text goes here" title="extra goes here" />
As before, the placement of surrounding words is very important. However, WordPress makes it very easy to fill in the necessary part of the image tag. So easy, all we do is fill in the blanks and that’s it.
Title is for the text that appear in the tool tip, the text that appears when the mouse hovers over a picture. Alternative text is for browsers that can’ show images, some times used by brail enabled browsers.
Caption allows you to display text underneath a picture, it’s look depends on the theme you are using.
Description is used internally so when you look through your gallery you have a better idea of what the picture was used for.
Even though WordPress makes it easy to add pictures, always take a minute to add as much info as you can. Ensure your keywords that relate to the picture are used before and after.
