Not Adding ALT Text to “Related Products”

Hi,

Regarding our plugin, Bialty uses the the_content filter, and in the case of WooCommerce, it also uses other filters for the product gallery images. Therefore, at the moment, it is not possible to add alt tags to related products, posts, the website logo, or images in the sidebar or footer, as these are outside the scope of the filters we use to add alt tags to images.

That being said, considering how our plugin works—using either the “focus keyword” or the page title as the “Alt tag” for the image, such as for a product—from an SEO perspective, using the Alt tag of a specific product (its name, in this case) as the Alt tag for other products doesn’t make sense.

This means that using the Alt tag corresponding to a product’s name (via its Meta tag keyword—aka Focus keywords, or the page title) for other products is not a good SEO practice. What matters to search engines is consistency and the reinforcement, through the Alt tag, of a page’s meaning. Diluting this understanding with a specific alt tag for different images other than the original product is not necessarily a good idea.

For example, would it be relevant if, in a Google Images search, these other products appeared for a query related to your initial product?

I hope this information helps you better understand how our plugin and Alt tags work for SEO.

Best regards.

Hi there,

A few things:

1 – I am not sure if you’re understanding was that we wanted to apply another products ALT text, to a different one – that is not the case. My goal is to have the title of the product, apply to a product wherever it appears. This includes the “Related Products” section, of another product. While I understand your point that it won’t help the keyword density or ranking for the main keyword focus, what it will do, is meet basic ADA compliance guidelines, as well google’s quality content guidelines by providing ALT text for the images on the page. So it’s quite important we are able to add ALT text to these images.

2 – your plugin now gives a critical error message when I click on it. It’s the only plugin giving this error. When I click on the plugin, it is taking a very, very long time to respond – and when it does, it gives a critical error message:

There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.

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This is a large site, over 200k products. Is the plugin equipped to handle this? It appears to have worked on the items I checked, but not sure what is happening with the critical error message

Hi,

Could you forward to this email: [email protected] the details of the email received from WordPress about this critical error?

Thanks