SEO
Image optimization
Compression, dimensions, alt text. For AI, alt and captions are the text a multimodal model can quote when the pixels are opaque to a text crawler.
Don’t put unique facts only in a screenshot of a table.
Alt should describe, not keyword dump.
Examples
- A pricing table as a PNG. Text crawlers see nothing. A user agent with vision might read it; many pipelines won’t.
Related terms
Image search optimization
Making images findable in Lens, image search, and multimodal chat.
JavaScript rendering for AI crawlers
Whether a bot executes JS. Many AI crawlers are worse at this than Googlebot. If the article is empty without JS, you are invisible.
Multimodal search optimization
Preparing media so visual and video search can use it: captions, transcripts, filenames, schema, not just pretty pixels.
FAQ
Does alt text get cited? +
Rarely as a footnote, but it helps understanding. Put the facts in HTML too.
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