How can i define a ALT Tag for Youtube videos?
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Hello,
When i scan with SEMrush it shows all such pages do not have ALT Tags
http://img.youtube.com/vi/iJ4pmmRSZxc/hqdefault.jpg
What should the ALT be for them and how can i control as we have 1000's of Youtube videos displayed on various parts of our website
Thank you
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Hello,
Alt tags are definitely important for on-page optimizations but they were originally created to literally help Google understand what your image is (since GoogleBot can't actually see the image). If you have 1000s of images across your site that don't have alt tags, I wouldn't be extremely worried.
I would recommend taking a look at other areas on your site and seeing if there are improvements to be made that could potentially have a bigger impact on your rankings or user behavior (i.e. h1 tags, internal linking structure, etc.) If everything else on your site looks ideal, then perhaps create a strategy for the top 50 landing pages that have images and add alt tags and measure to see if rankings improve at all. If they do, create a plan to add alt tags to the rest of the images across the site. If not, I would recommend simply adding alt tags to new images on new pages from now on.
In other words: don't worry, there are other changes you can probably make that will have a bigger impact. If you have the resources, go back and test out 50 or so pages by adding alt tags. If not, simply start adding alt tags to new images and pages when they are created from now on.
Oh and in regards to what your ALT tags should be, they should represent what the image is. For example, if you have an image of a man eating an apple, the alt tag could be "man-eating-apple".
Hope that helps!
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