Should i be using shortcodes for my my page content.

[A_Fotografy]

Hello,

I have a question. Sorry if this is been answered before.

Recently I decided to do a little face lift to my main website pages. I wanted to make my testimonials more pretty. Found this great plugin for testimonials which creates shortcodes.

I love how it looks like, but just realised that when I use images in shortcodes, these are not picked up by search engines only text is.

Image search ability is pretty important for me and I'm not sure if I should stick with my plain design and upload images manually with all alt tags and title tags or there is a way to adjust shortcode so it shows images to search engines.

You can see example here. https://a-fotografy.co.uk/maternity-photographer-edinburgh/

Let me know your thoughts guys.

Regards,

Armands

[donsilvernail]

Hi Armands,

I see you are using WordPress and have the Yoast SEO Plugin installed. This is very good and can give you the ability to have the images indexed if you so desire. Do you have a google search console account?

What you need to do is select the XML Sitemaps tab and make sure site map functionality is turned on, then select post types tab. Make sure Media(attachment) is selected as included in site map. Submit this new site map to google search console. Now all Media images in the media library will be indexed. Make sure your titles and alt text reference what the image is.