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Is image description important for image SEO? Advice Required From SEO Expert.

by zeus143
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I need a little advice from any SEO expert. As per my current knowledge; image urls, image alt text, and image titles play a huge role in image SEO.

But what about the image description? Is it important too, or can it be ignored?
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  • Profile picture of the author savidge4
    Originally Posted by zeus143 View Post

    I need a little advice from any SEO expert. As per my current knowledge; image urls, image alt text, and image titles play a huge role in image SEO.

    But what about the image description? Is it important too, or can it be ignored?
    As much as all of this helps... its not "huge". I personally do not use the image description - UNLESS your goal is LOCAL seo and then i might, but only if there is a need for some added context to the page.

    The image name / url ( they are kinda one in the same ) are probably the most important of the bunch - and with Google in particular a clear Image Alt is an indication of an amount of effort towards user UX - and will et you "points" for people with accessibility setting set with their browsers ( IE people with sight impairments )


    hope that helps!
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    Google uses image alt text to help determine what the image is about. They also use vision algorithms and consider what the page is about to define the image and whether to include it in search results. It's not a huge factor, but I always enter alt texts in my images.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shawn Gossman
      Originally Posted by blairquane View Post

      Google uses image alt text to help determine what the image is about. They also use vision algorithms and consider what the page is about to define the image and whether to include it in search results. It's not a huge factor, but I always enter alt texts in my images.
      I agree with this guy here.

      And usually, I focus on the first image ALT for optimizing with my keyword. After that, I just describe images in the ALT, without depending on my keyword. I think the first image matters more than the rest.
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