Using SEMRush SEO Audit Tool which tells me 9 images (all on the same page: https://loboy.com/loboy-styrofoam-coolers/ ) are missing Alt attributes. I have entered Alt text in both Cornerstone AND in Media Library.
Any suggestions to get them to show up during the SEO Audit? Weird it’s only happening on that one page.
Hi Lawrence,
Thanks for writing in! Alt text is not pulled from the media library itself, however you can set it through the image element in Cornerstone.
I have actually tested this on my end and I can confirm that the Alt information is displaying correctly on the browser, when we set it in the Cornerstone image element.
Upon further testing, I see that you’re using a caching plugin on your site. Please make sure to purge your server cache, also clear browser cache and test your issue again (https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-clear-your-cache-in-wordpress/).
If you’re still having issues, you can try disabling your 3rd party plugins to see if you’re experiencing any plugin conflict. If the issue resolved, then you can enable your plugins one by one to see which plugin causing the issue.
Let us know how it goes.
Thanks!
The Alt text IS in Cornerstone as well as Media Library. The SEMRush Audit has no issues with other images on other pages. 3rd Party Plugin should be affecting other images if that were the case. The issue is happening only on this page: https://loboy.com/loboy-styrofoam-coolers/ - SEMRush tested the page themselves in another tool and showed me no alt data is being displayed on those 9 images despite having the Alt text in Cornerstone.
I just ran the SEMRush Audit again, same issue.
Hi @tlavonlawrence,
I am not entirely sure how SEMRush works but most likely it only analyzes the raw content of the editor instead of the processed live page. Example, if you add something like this in your editor [image] then SEMRush will ignore it, it’s not an image after all as it only recognizes the <img> element for images. The [image] element is only converted to <img> in the front (live page) through Wordpress do_shortcode() functionality.
Search engines does not crawl and analyze your site’s raw content. It will only analyze what was served on your page and we can clearly see by looking in the code that the alt tags are present.
You may ignore SEMRush Audit report regarding this.
Thanks
Will do - gonna let it go and dive into a cup of coffee lol
Thanks!
You are most welcome!
If you need anything else we can help you with, don’t hesitate to open another thread.
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