Hello,
Thank you for reaching out to us. I understand that you are experiencing an issue with Rank Math not recognizing the image alt text on your website after replacing Yoast with Rank Math.
To ensure that Rank Math recognizes the image alt text, please follow these steps:
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Make sure you have enabled the Image SEO module in Rank Math. You can do this by navigating to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO and enabling the Image SEO module.
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Once the Image SEO module is enabled, navigate to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Images and ensure that the Add missing ALT attributes feature is enabled. This will automatically add alt text to images that don’t have it.
If after following these steps, Rank Math still does not recognize the image alt text, please consider enabling the Add missing ALT attributes feature as a workaround. This feature will help automatically add alt text to your images based on the settings you choose.
If the issue persists even after enabling the feature, please let us know so we can further investigate the cause of the problem.
Feel free to provide any additional information or screenshots if needed. We are here to assist you.
Thank you!
Sources:
How to Automatically Set Alt and Title Attributes for Images
How to Show Images in the Search Results » Rank Math
Image SEO Options in Rank Math
Hello,
Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused you.
Please note that the Add missing ALT attributes and Add missing TITLE attributes options in Rank Math are not added to your images in the media gallery as the feature works only on the fly (applied on the front end when your page loads on the browser).
Also, images added by your WordPress theme or page builder to various sections like your sliders, thumbnails, icons, etc. will not be affected as they only apply to images added directly to your content.
We can see from the source code of your homepage that the images without Alt text are within the Javascript “noscript” tag. The content of this tag is only active when Javascript is not allowed or available.
This is generated by either a plugin or the theme. You can follow this troubleshooting guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/ to determine the source.
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Rank Math already detects the ALT text on those images since it doesn’t mention them on the list of images without ALT texts.
You can easily know the images without alt text by searching (Ctrl F) the source code for alt="".
Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you. May I ask where I can find that list of images?
Hello,
You can use the SEO Analyzer tool to determine the images without alt tags on your homepage.
Alternatively, you may use our External SEO Analyzer to check any other URL or pages on your site.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
