Hello,
Pictures alternate texts are important for SEO.
One thing that CKEditor is doing and that's great, it to automatically use the name of picture as an alternate text.
But something that would be BETTER and go one step further (both helping to save time, and will be better in the case of forgetting to edit them), would be to automatically "clean up" those alternate texts.
Let's take an exemple:
o name of the file = keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg
o current alt text (if not edited) = keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg
o cleaned up, it would become : keyword1 keyword2 keyword3
Is there a way to do so by editing CKEditor?
Pictures alternate texts are important for SEO.
One thing that CKEditor is doing and that's great, it to automatically use the name of picture as an alternate text.
But something that would be BETTER and go one step further (both helping to save time, and will be better in the case of forgetting to edit them), would be to automatically "clean up" those alternate texts.
Let's take an exemple:
o name of the file = keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg
o current alt text (if not edited) = keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.jpg
o cleaned up, it would become : keyword1 keyword2 keyword3
Is there a way to do so by editing CKEditor?
Re: Picture alternate texts
How can be anyone so clueless and rude in order to state that alt text is a way to do SEO?
Re: Picture alternate texts
Alternate texts is part of SEO, as it is also part of accessiblity.
I mentionned SEO, but my suggestion would also be, i believe, valid for accessiblity reason.
I used "keyword1-keyword2-keyword3" as i could have said : "author-book-publisher".
Once again, my apologies if i was rude in my message.. it wasnt my intention.
Re: Picture alternate texts
Maybe I've been too harsh in my message but I find it really sad that a feature which goal is to allow the millions of blind people to use webpages can be simply seen as a SEO trick and so they will get even worse web pages if that line of thought is spread.
Please, review this doc and you'll see that not a single time there's a suggestion to use alt text as a way to improve the ranking of a page: http://dev.w3.org/html5/alt-techniques/developer.html
On the other hand, if you create useful alt texts then blind people will be able to correctly use your page instead of wondering why are you repeating those marketing words over and over again.
Back to your question: CKEditor doesn't fill automatically the alt text with the name of the picture (because that would be just wrong). You can check it in the demo: http://ckeditor.com/demo
So if you see that behavior in your server that's due to some customization.
Re: Picture alternate texts
Having alt text is a good practice for accessibility, AND (it's the cherry on top) it's taken into account by the search engines. I dont say to stuff it in keywords, but to have one that is relevant... and that's both for accessiblity and seo.
Anyway, thank you for your input