Hi manojglobal,
That’s great to hear :).
The next update will be all around the Author SEO. I have yet to plan the image update, but this is a great place to start for such a great idea!
I can’t find anything related to this within the Yoast plugin’s source code, maybe it is/was premium?
For now I see very little use in having ImageObject types for regular websites, however, if you are a photographer or producer this is certainly interesting. Best practices suggest to always have an alt tag, from there it pretty much stops.
This is advanced, and there are several ways to handle this approach, and it starts with the Thing, from there we can alter the ImageObject, in several ways.
The SEO Framework will most likely never alter the content directly, I believe this is for the theme to do. Even more so, I believe only WordPress should touch the content, the theme should just wrap something nice around it, and maybe alter the font.
In conclusion: The image data will be output in an JSON-LD script within the header.
So it all comes down to this: What data do you prefer or have a need for to be output?
Think about exifData, thumbnail, author, description, size, title, etc.
Thanks 🙂
Thanks for your very well explained answer !!!
I love your approach for not altering the content and it should be like this. I forgot to tell you that I am using Genesis framework and now I am going to ask them what they have to say on this.
However, images and videos are on rise and they should not be taken for granted when we are talking about SEO. I have experienced myself that when you place well optimized and big size image near to Headline, then you are actually pushing your page towards the top position on SERPs.
For me, exifData is not really important because Matt Cuts says that exifData is only helpful when your search query includes those photography technical keywords and you are actually searching “Images” not “All” or “News”.
So, size and caption data is going to help a lot when you are concerned about overall ranking. And yes, first paragraph is the most important thing that every SEO expert need to realize.
Thanks for your efforts in the form of your plugin…
Hi manojglobal,
I think the most important thing that should be covered within this area is the og:image/twitter:image, as it doesn’t feature an alt tag, in any way. In fact, it isn’t even shown on the page if the theme doesn’t support a header image or featured image, for instance.
And this is exactly the part you should be able to search for in Google.
All other images within the content should already have the required Alt Tag.
WordPress already takes great care of this, although it isn’t automated. Alas, alarming the user about it isn’t something I wish to do.
The sizes and the categories of where they’re placed in is already automatically taken care of. Search Engines know about this through other page and their SEO data.
I believe that the images within the content should be taken care of through a content scanning function; which unfortunately could be quite heavy. This will/might be placed in an external plugin.
Maybe even a way to manually and/or automatically (preemptively) connect the images within a new tab in the SEO In-Post settings, who knows.
That’s all I can say for now, as I still need to get started on it before getting into details.
I’ll keep you posted when I get started on it. Until then, feel free to feed me more information of what you think and wish. May it even be about something else (in a new topic).
Have a wonderful day! 🙂
