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For SEO purposes, ALT tags are basically the text that search engines use to recognize, and rank your store's images. A question we get often is in regards to adding and editing ALT tags for product images. Fortunately, your Shift4Shop store automatically provides ALT tags for your product images as they are assigned in the store. When you assign images to your products, the Shift4Shop software will take the product name itself and use it for the Alt Tag text. In the example below, we show the image as it appears on the listing page along with the HTML created for the image reference. Note how the ALT tag is reflecting the product's name. Anywhere in the store where product images display will utilize this automatic ALT tagging action. This includes the following:
Additional Information Additionally, your store will use the following ALT tags for these non-product related images:
Manual ALT TagsWe do also support the ability to configure manually-created ALT tags for certain images on your store. Product Images As the system only generates ALT tags automatically for the first image assigned to a product, we allow for merchants to easily set manually-created ALT Tags for product images. You can also customize the ALT Tag used for the main product image.
Homepage Carousel As the Homepage Carousel is used for custom banners, the system will not automatically generate ALT Tags for these images. You can, however, set these easily within the module using thte following directions:
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