How to Add Shopify Alt Tags to Theme Images

14 Jul

How to add Shopify Alt Tags to Theme Images, Updated 11th August 2020 – In this article I am going to show you how to add Shopify alt tags to your theme images.

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What Are Alt Tags?

Alt tag stands for alternative tag. It’s used on images to make them accessible to people with eyesight disabilities.

Alt tags are also very important for SEO. Search engines cannot read the content of an image. Alt tags serve as a description of the image helping searching engines indexing and ranking them properly.

How to Add Shopify Alt Tags to Theme Images

To add alt tags to your theme images:

From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
Find the theme that you want to edit and click Customize.
From the theme editor toolbar, click the section with the image that needs alt text.
Below the image, click Edit:
In the dialog, enter the alt text, and then click Save.
In the top right corner of the theme editor, click Save.