Hot Image slider and SEO....

Hello, thanks for your free module, looks really profesional.

However we are worried about the effect on SEO, is the actual text inside the images any use for search engines?

We use your component here www.comenaranjas.com/variedades.html
for a concrete section explaining some fruit types but we are worried that the text description of the images is no use for a google search. We plan to use more text on those images description and just wondering about this.

We know google doesnt like flash and javascript so just a bit worried about this...

Thanks

I could describe that module design in terms of SEO friendlessness with grade 7 of 10. SE Robot treats HTML as text and all the content is there , although descriptions are placed in json array witch is not so good there are still visible to robot which is very good. Robot see the page as you see it when you go to "View source" option in your browser.

Thanks for the info, I'm happy knowing the text is visible for robots, however would be nice if it could be improved somehow in future versions thinking in SEO terms.

Cheers

For improved seo make sure that your image file names contain keywords and not files named image1, image2 etc.

However, what would improve this module would be the ability to specify the image alt tag. I cannot see any way to do this. Anybody?

Hi,

open mod_hot_image_slider\tmpl\default.php

find this:

<img id="slide-img-<?php echo $imageCounter; ?>" src="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site; ?>/<?php echo $imageFolder ?>/<?php echo $imageArray[$imageCounter]; ?>" class="slide" alt="" />

and modify alt attribute value like this:

<img id="slide-img-<?php echo $imageCounter; ?>" src="<?php echo $mosConfig_live_site; ?>/<?php echo $imageFolder ?>/<?php echo $imageArray[$imageCounter]; ?>" class="slide" alt="<?php echo $imageDescArray[$imageCounter];?>" />

Yep, great that works thanks , it puts the image description into the alt tag.

To get the image title instead replace with:

or to get the image filename in the alt tag then replace with