Optimizing Your Images and Galleries for SEO (Alt Text)
5 min
In this article
- Adding alt text to individual images
- Adding alt text to gallery images
- Adding alt text to vector art
- FAQs
You can help get your images found in search results like Google by adding text to them. Since search engines cannot “read” an image, they search your site's HTML code for text that describes the image. This text is known as “alt text”.
Adding alt text to your images helps search engines match your site's pages to what your users search for and include your pages in relevant search results. Alt text is also important for accessibility purposes. Some of your site visitors might be using screen readers, which read the alt text aloud to describe the media on your site.
Adding alt text to individual images
You can add alt text to individual images on your site in your site's editor.
To add alt text to individual images:
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
Wix Harmony Editor
- Go to your editor.
- Click the image.
- Click the Settings icon
. - Enter a description of the image under What's in the image?
Adding alt text to gallery images
By default, the titles of the images in your galleries are used as their alt text. Whether you're using the Wix Pro Gallery in the Wix Editor / Studio Editor, or the Wix Gallery in the Wix Harmony Editor, you can edit your alt text to be different from the title.
To add alt text to gallery images:
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
Wix Harmony Editor
- Go to your editor.
- Click the gallery element on the page.
- Click Manage Media or Change Images.
- Click an image to select it.
- Enter a title for the image on the right.
- (For Wix Pro Gallery) Edit the alt text for your image under Alt Text if you want it to be different from your image's title.
- Click Done.
Adding alt text to vector art
You can add alt text to your vector art in your site's editor.
To add alt text to vector art:
Wix Editor
Studio Editor
Wix Harmony Editor
- Go to your editor.
- Click the vector art element on the page.
- Click the Settings icon .
- Enter your alt text under What's in the vector art?
FAQs
Click a question below to learn more about optimizing your images for SEO with alt text.
Can I add alt text to my Wix Blog images and Wix Stores product images?
Can I add alt text to my site's images in bulk?
Can I add alt text to other elements with background images?
Want to learn more?
You can read about Wix's great SEO features and how to use them in the Complete Wix SEO Guide.
