SEO // Image Alt-Title Editing (and existence?!)
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Scott Hargrave
Any chance of having alt-image tag editing at some point? It isnt just high up the SEO best practice list, but like all other aspects of SEO it evolves, and not only are they still relevant according to Google as recently as 4 months ago, but you should also be able to edit them as good SEO research spots new opportunities.
If they cannot be editable, product images should at least have the product name on the main image, but I cannot see this when I scrape my site?
With Google trying to leverage conversions from the image search pages, its pretty important if its not already present!
And you get (allegedly) a free page boost for following accessability best practice too.
Neil McQuillan
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Scott Hargrave
Neil McQuillan as we head past the 3rd anniversary of this highly upvoted - and important - SEO requirement, can we have an update please? It’s been planned for 3 years so I am surprised in those 3 years it still not on the roadmap, and does need resolving whilst Google still puts relevance in alt-image titles for some search results and accessibility scoring? so for me and a lot of SEO people it’s a still important and it’s as always appearing in ahrefs, Moz to fix, and is used by Google for image search. Google last confirmed this in November 23
Thank you
Scott
Shirin Sadr
Ben Kippax Hey Ben - Is there any update on this? It was marked as planned some time ago. We're also keen to see the 2022 Roadmap especially with the planned investment in Ecomm. Would be good to see what that looks like - is there news on its release?
Ben Kippax
Hi Shirin Sadr:
We've not yet added this to our roadmap.
It's not my place to share the entire roadmap for development I am afraid. I'm sure it's a discussion that could be had but I'm not the person to share that information.
What I can share is that our priorities at the moment are
* Payment Service Providers Directive V2 (PSD2) and Strong Customer Authentication (SCA)
* Heavy architectural and speed improvements
** This will help pave the way for future developments
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Ben Kippax
Steven Sproat @scott-hargrave-skiers-lounge-consultant This is an interesting topic and one that deserves a fairly lengthy discussion about the general accessibility and our adherence (or not) to A11y web accessibility standards.
I'll flag this for discussion with the ecommerce dev team.
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Steven Sproat
Hi, this is because images aren't displayed using a traditional HTML <img> tag; the image is shown via a background image applied using CSS to a <div>, so no alt tag can be applied.
I'd argue that this approach is wrong, as background-images with CSS are exactly that - visual presentation. A product image is actually part of the page content.
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Scott Hargrave
Steven Sproat: yepp, Bingo!