Alt image tags , shoud i reupload my site images as i never optimized right first time?

[hemeravisuals]

Hi guys i own a photographic website. www.hemeravisuals.co.uk

And when I created it , i wasn't aware of the world of SEO , alt tags and labelling your images etc...
Would it be wise to reupload my sites images (100 in total) as I cannot rename the files on my wordpress site but it does allow me to add alt text , captions etc?Or just add the data i can to the images allready on the site?

Would it be worthwhile in terms of search and pagerank?

[hemeravisuals]

I have deleted to old images and uploaded versions with optimized files names alts tags etc also done all my page seo too

[Christy-Correll]

Yes, this is okay if the URLs for the images themselves don't have significant inbound links. (Just let them 404.) For any images that, do, however, have significant inbound links, I would 301 redirect the URL for the old image to the URL for the new image. (Notice I am saying image not page. Keep the URL for the page the image is embedded on the same.)

[hemeravisuals]

is it ok to just delete and replace the images and put them back on the same pages on my site (only begun the seo optimsing process this week) ?

[hemeravisuals]

I have only begun optimzing my page for SEO this week, so I am just in the process of deleting my images are reuploading them to the same pages they were on before thanks again

[Christy-Correll]

I agree with Jarno, given the nature of your site. I'd also strongly suggest 301 redirecting any of the old URLs that have inbound links and/or are receiving organic search traffic to the new ones that will be created when you rename the images. (There are several Wordpress plugins that can make this easier on you.) If the images don't have any inbound links or traffic, you can simply let them 404. Best of luck!

Christy

[JarnoNijzing]

Hi there,

i would defiantly do it. Both rename the files and give good alts just like suggested above. But there is another very good reason to do so. Since 2007 when I started with some of my websites I always used logical names for images and descriptive alt tags and this turned out to send me quite a lot of traffic actually. Don't think of 100,000 visitors per year but using analytics I've seen years with about 7500 to 15000 visitors per year through image search by Google.

Also, these people also opted in for our newsletter, viewed a lot of pages etc. etc. So yes. I would use logical names and alt tags and invest the time in it.

Regards

Jarno

[adamxj2]

However you can go about doing it, I would highly suggest it. Search engines can't see images so the alt tags and the file name tell them what the content/purpose is.

This is especially important for you if the majority of your content is photographic in nature. If your site wasn't a photography site and not so image heavy I would say just changing the alt tags would be enough. I realize it's a pain and time consuming to rename and reupload your files to WordPress, but I think it's worth it.

Hope that helps!

[Leonie-Kramer]

Hi, you don't need to upload the images again, you can add the alt tag, and if needed, other data to the code.

Grtz, Leonie