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I see many Pinners using their image’s alt text to generate their Pinterest description. In this video, I’ll show you why this mistake is hurting your usability and SEO, and what to do instead.
Many Pinners use their image’s alt text to generate their Pinterest description. But, the primary purpose of alt text is to describe the photo to visually impaired users, so doing this can harm your website’s usability and search engine optimization (SEO).
Copy and modify the code in this article, “7 Not-So-Obvious Pinterest Mistakes That Are Hurting Your Shares And Engagement,” to optimize your Pinterest Pins for usability and SEO.
You can either add the code in the article manually or automate the process of adding it with the WPTasty plugin for WordPress. This will help you prevent errors that creep in when doing this manually (which happens pretty often).
And while you’re here, download my Free Pinterest Marketing Guide PDF.
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Priya Florence Shah
Priya Florence Shah is the author of Devi2Diva, an emotional self-care book for women, award-winning publisher of Naaree.com and Group Editor of SHEROES, a women-only social networking platform.
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