How can i add alt tags on magento websites

[sheikhsubha35e]

Website store has been made on Magento but i don't know how to add alt tags on magento as i always have worked on wordpress websites. Kindly help if anybody knows about it.

https://www.xcentricservices.com/shop/surface-go/

[AlexKold]

Hi, 

If you want to add them one by one, go to Catalog / Products, select the needed item, scroll to Images tab, open the picture and you'll see the Alt form on the right.

For bulk uploads of alts, you'll need some custom code or custom modules, e.g. importing .csv via Store Manager software.

[gaurav_harsh1]

Hello @sheikhsubha35e 

The default Magento gets the product/category name at place of ALT tag if you don't put any alt tag on image, but if you add any tag externally, it will override, I would rather suggest you to go with ALT SEO extension where you can manage ALT tags by different patterns for ex : {name}-{sku}  /  {name}-{short-description} so making like this externally will take so much efforts so you can use any extension or change the default behaviour of SKU showing on frontend.

Or the default is to run a file upload of product/category images with ALT tags

Hope it helps !

[johnpetersdca2]

I'd advise using the extension for that. You don't have to do anything with the code. All you need to do is to set the Alt tags in the admin and that's all. 

Magento 2 Hreflang Extension allows you to do that easily. It will improve the store switching and make a great influence on SEO allowing the search engines to guide people to the corresponding store view.

[huy_dao]

The Magento 2 SEO extension by Mageplaza must be a great solution for you. With this extension, you only install without any code modifications. Especially, if you need to insert alt tags, meta keywords, and meta descriptions for your product, it is also friendly with your store. From that, it will do perfectly for your better SEO.

[aczapiewskb125]

If you are moving from WordPress to Magento and need to manage image ALT tags for SEO, it works a bit differently here.

In Magento 2, you can manually add ALT text to product images directly in the product settings:

• Go to Catalog

• Then Products

• Open any product and scroll down to the Images and Videos section

• There you can edit each image and add ALT text manually

However, if you have a large catalog, doing this one by one can be very time-consuming.

To automate and optimize this process, there is a Magento extension called SEO: Image Friendly URLs from qoliber. It automatically generates SEO-friendly image filenames and ALT attributes based on product names, categories, and other variables you define. This way you can handle hundreds or thousands of images at once without manual work.

You can find it here: https://qoliber.com/magento-2-extensions.html

If you are serious about Magento SEO, automating ALT tags is highly recommended to improve image indexing and search visibility.