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WP Plugins for Better Image Optimization

WP Plugins for Better Image Optimization
W3zetmedia - There are a lot of SEO plugins in the WordPress plugins directory and the collection includes some really amazing plugins to help you better optimize the images on your blog. We are going to see some of the best Image Optimization plugins that you can use to manage the images and optimize them perfectly.



1# SEO Friendly Images

This is by far the best plugin for optimizing your images for search engines. If you have a lot of images on your site and you haven’t added the title tag or the ALT text in the images, then this plugin will automatically add the tags to your image based on the settings that you choose.

You just have to download the SEO Friendly Images Plugin and install it on your site. Then set it up by choosing the options and the plugin will add the title and ALT text wherever they are missing.

So if you have a lot of un-optimized images on your blog, it’s time to use this plugin to optimize it.
Note: I would suggest you to add ALT texts and Title tags to the images manually right after you upload them. The reason for this is SEO Friendly Images plugin might not add the perfect ALT texts to your images because it works on the options you selected in the settings area.

2# WP Smush.It or EWWW Image Optimizer

No matter how much you try to resize the images and optimize them before uploading, there will still be a chance to optimize them further.

That’s where plugins like WP Smush and EWWW Image Optimizer come in. Both of them does, more or less, the same things, so you can use either of them on your site.

These plugins optimize the images by reducing their size without compromising the quality of the image. There are no complicated settings, just run the optimizer and all the images will be optimized.

Here’s an article published on WPBeginner that shows you how you can use WP Smush plugin to optimize the image and also other alternative plugins like EWWW Image Optimizer in action.

3# Wordpress Image SEO

WordPress has a nice media library option in which you can upload images very easily. While uploading images most of us just totally ignore the alt tags. Alt tag is an important part of your image. It describes what your image is about.

When you publish a post/page you can directly view the image. The image might be understandable to you when you take a look at it. But for the crawler it's not. The crawler does not understand the image. It reads the alt tag and tries to understand the image. So if your alt tag is empty or not relevant to your topic it's pretty much useless in search engine.

WP Image SEO allows you to optimize your blog images. It automatically fills out the missing alt tags of your images.

WordPress Image SEO Plugin Features
  • Optimize your WordPress blog images for SEO.
  • Change the alt and title tags of your images automatically.
  • Improve search engine ranking by using more meaningful alt tags.
  • Efficiently manage the alt tags of all of your post images.
WordPress Image SEO Plugin Usage

Once you have installed the plugin go to Settings->WP Image SEO on your WP dashboard. It will take you to the General Settings menu of the plugin.

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