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Yes I was thinking of testing this.

I have just checked our images and from what I can see the devs have set the alt tag to default to the product title.

Then the image title is a bit more descriptive - does the image title/legend help with anything or should we ignore these and update alt tags instead?

Do you still not need to optimise each different image?

Thank you this is really helpful!

Great thank you very much for your help!

Hi Andy

That's great thank you. I'm finding it harder to describe some products, which have very similar images. Say for instance, a fan at different angles.

Will I get penalised if Alt tags have the same name? So if say 3 images all have, floor fan? This is happening as a default at the moment, but I am looking into getting them updated - however if the benefit is small other tasks will be prioritised.

Thank you

Hi

I work on SEO for an ecommerce site and wanted to find out how important it is to optimise all images with alt tags.

We have alt tags in place, however have not optimised descriptions for the following example images:

Front of cupboard

Back of cupboard

Side of cupboard etc

Is this dangerous for SEO if these images all have the same alt tag?

We have thousands of products so it would be a huge job to update these, but if it's crucial for SEO we can work through our priorities.

Thank you!