SEO Friendly Images

SEO Friendly Images is a WordPress optimization plugin which automatically updates all images with proper ALT and TITLE attributes. If your images do not have ALT and TITLE already set, SEO Friendly Images will add them according the options you set. Additionally this makes the post W3C/xHTML valid as well.

ALT attribute is important part of search engine optimization. It describes your image to search engine and when a user searches for a certain image this is a key determining factor for a match.

TITLE attribute play lesser role but is important for visitors as this text will automatically appear in the tooltip when mouse is over the image.

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Installation & Usage

  1. Upload the whole plugin folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  2. Go to the Plugins page and activate the plugin.
  3. Use the Options page to modify ALT and TITLE options.
  4. You are done, SEO Image does everything else

SEO Friendly Images options recognize two tags %title (post title) and %name (filename of the picture). By combining these two tags and additional words (photo, picture etc..) you can create relevant alt and title tags automatically for all images.

Here is a live example of the plugin (active on my blog). The image that has title and alt replaced with "%title" and "%name %title" respectively resulting in "SEO Friendly Image" for title and "example SEO Friendly Images" for alt.

example SEO Friendly Images

There is one additional option called 'Override default WordPress alt'. If you uploaded pictures to your blog posts already and haven't specified a description WordPress would automatically add a default alt tag in form of image.jpg. Since SEO Friendly Images replaces only empty or non-existing alt tags, this would be left intact unless this option is turned on.

Changelog

v2.4: Regexp Optimization. Fixed bug with single quotes used in images.

v2.3.2: WP 2.7 cleanup

v2.3: Fixes an issue with poorly formatted img tag

v2.0: Fixed compatibility issue with WordPress 2.5.1 and included %category replacement string.

May 20th, 2008 v1.20

* Compatibility with WordPress 2.5.1 and support for %category.

Mar 6st, 2008 v1.1

* Bug fix with quotes in titles

Mar 1st, 2008 v1.0
* Initial release

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203 Comments

  1. ktwoonlinebiz ktwoonlinebiz.com
    5 days ago

    nice pluggin, keep it update.. thanks.. good job

  2. semPATA Indonesia sempata.blogspot.com
    2 weeks ago

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  3. Hottest Babes hottestbabes.net
    2 weeks ago

    only say very very good plugin
    my blog is big image on its,thanks for this solution

  4. Ryan columbiabugabooii.com
    3 weeks ago

    Excellent plugin buddy! Many thanks and keep up the good work!

  5. Danny
    3 weeks ago

    hi
    when are u planning to make an update?
    everybody wish it :)

  6. Andy imventure.com
    3 weeks ago

    Awesome job!
    I just discovered one of you plugins and after going to your site I started using all of them LOL. Hope this works.

  7. Gombeto niteversions.com
    5 weeks ago

    Great idea but unfortunately not working for me. I'm using the latest version of WordPress.

  8. Schneider dinamicasocial.com
    Aug 9th, 2010

    Really nice plugin, thanks a lot! I've installed it and it worked very well!

  9. book world bookworldd.weebly.com
    Aug 5th, 2010

    always great to get new plugins:) thanks

  10. Andy Rogers redboxpictures.com
    Jul 16th, 2010

    Thanks for your work Vladimir. This plugin is almost perfect for my purposes. I would love to see the ability to have my description propogate in the alt tag field. Is there a way to do this in current or future versions?
    Thanks again!

  11. zamzam u-type.org
    Jul 15th, 2010

    This plugin is working great at my site, thank you for share

  12. Dmitri derevjazhka.ru
    Jul 2nd, 2010

    Спасибо за отличный плагин, очень полезный для оптимизации сайта

  13. arslion news-world.us
    Jun 17th, 2010

    love this plugin...really great..i am also using your many other plugins..you are working great..

  14. cute girl sheisbeautiful.com
    Jun 1st, 2010

    love this plugin, used it on my site, please check it out http://www.sheisbeautiful.com
    also wondering if you guys use any gallery plugin for this, ?

  15. Emma Watson emma-zone.de
    May 26th, 2010

    Hello Vladimir,
    that is a great plugin, we use it in two projects and it works like a charm. Thanks a lot for sharing it :-)

  16. Ricbi rahmenversand.com
    May 20th, 2010

    Hi Vladimir,
    thanks for the nice plugin,I am using it with 2.8 and it seems do do what it should :-) However I am thinking about updating WP in the next months. Is the plugin compatible with the latest version of WordPress?

    Ricbi

  17. Alberto albertoangeli.it
    May 19th, 2010

    Vladimir, thank you for this nice plugin!
    I had the same problems as others (title not being updated). I tried lolxl solution but it didn't work either. I then installed the "Img Title Removal" plugin and everything started to work fine. I guess the problem is that if you already have titles, they are not being overwritten, so this way they are first cleared and then managed by SEO Friendly Images.
    You can download the "Img Title Removal" plugin at:
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/img-title-removal/

    • Fabien pix-geeks.com
      4 weeks ago

      Thanks !!!
      I just installed the other plug-in and now it works fine :)

  18. Juan Manuel soxialmedia.com
    May 18th, 2010

    Vladimir, one question. Is it posible to update images in the posts that already have the alt tag specified? (I don't want to replace the alt tag or create another one, just update all the posts to show the alt description in the html). Thank you very much.

  19. Bloghissimo bloghissimo.com
    May 13th, 2010

    Yeah!! Good plugin!! :D Thank you so much

  20. Willian corridadeformula1.com
    Apr 28th, 2010

    Plugin looks great but I have some problems with galleries. Thumbnails are resized. When plugin is on they are shown in "80x8px". When I turn off the plugin they back to normal: "80x80px".

    Any ideas?

  21. Supermerlion supermerlion.com
    Apr 23rd, 2010

    Anyone else having problems with this. My alt is correctly being converted by this plugin but the titles refuse to change.

  22. Jonson tam100.ru
    Apr 21st, 2010

    good!! please keep it update.

    thanks
    Congratulations. :)

  23. PLI personalloaninsurance.com
    Apr 20th, 2010

    great for the plugin please keep it update.

    thanks

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