Search engines such as Google look at ‘Alt tag’. If you use alt tags correctly, you can help search engines to find the images and display them in search engine results as well.
Configure the Alt Tag options:
Enable automatic alt tag addition for new products: Enable this option to insert the Alt Tags as per the Alt tag pattern when the new products are added.
Update only empty alt texts: Enable this option to update only those Alt tags that are left empty.
> Choose “Alt Tag pattern” for Product images: You can configure the Alt Tag caption as per the product details.
-> [product_title] [product_type] [product_vendor] – If you select this option, the alt tag of the product images will update as per the Title of the product, product type & its vendor.
-> [product_title] – If you select this option, the alt tag of the product images will update as per the Product’s Title.
-> Custom – You can add the custom ‘Alt tag’ manually. You can use the variables like [product_title] [product_type] [product_vendor] and you can add a prefix for the ‘Alt tag’ as well.
> Choose “Alt Tag pattern” for Collection images: You can configure the ‘Alt Tag’ caption as per the Collection details.
-> [collection_title] (Recommended): If you select this option, the alt tag of the collection images will update as per the Title of the collection.
-> Custom – You can add the custom ‘Alt tag’ manually for the Collection images. You can use the variable for the articles as well. i.e. [collection_title]
> Choose “Alt Tag pattern” for Blog Posts images: You can configure the ‘Alt Tag’ caption as per the Blog Post (Article) details.
-> [article_title] (Recommended): If you select this option, the alt tag of the article image will update as per the Title of the Article (Blog post).
-> Custom – You can add the custom ‘Alt tag’ manually for the Blog posts images. You can use the variable for the articles as well. i.e. [article_title]