How would you SEO this page?

This page is actually a category page within my site that I recently converted to an e-commerce based platform (WooCommerce) and there are roughly 63 other separate pages relating to other topics you can see here. Basically the page is on second search engine reults page and trying to get feedback on how you would SEO this (and othe pages) so they show up better in the search results. I do utilize the Yoast plugin’s title + description offerings, plus tag my images in each page, use image keywords when naming files…but wondering what else can be done to add more robust seo on the pages…I feel I may be missing something…thank you.

“Content is King” as they say, and in terms of actual text content (the stuff crawlers can actually read and understand the meaning of) there is very little. That is not surprising given the nature of the site, cartoons being mainly visual. So what do you do?
The way you let crawlers understand what your images are and what they mean is via the alt attribute and/or captioning.
I noticed you have filled all the alt attributes, but with just “image”. That may tick a box with these automated “SEO analysis” sites, as they just recognise that the attribute exists and has some text in it regardless of the usefulness and descriptive qualities of said text.
But in real terms, labelling an <img> tag with “image” is possibly a little less useful than spray painting “Elephant” on the side of an elephant, just in case someone does not recognise it as being a elephant. :smiley:
Saying that the elephant is an Indian elephant from the State of Nagaland, named Kevin, who is 24 years old and who’s favourite food is bananas, may actually tell you something that was not immediately apparent.
In other words, an alt attribute that does not describe what the image is of, or what it means, is of no value at all. You are currently just saying that this image is an image.
I also mentioned captioning, this can be done using the figcaption element within a figure element:-

<figure>
    <img src="pictures/this-cartoon.jpg" alt="Nice bit of text which describes what's in the picture for the benefit of robots and the visually impared">
    <figcaption>Hilarious caption to accompany the cartoon</figcaption>
</figure>

It may be a lot of work, but perhaps if the captions on the images were actual text like this, you would have more text content to index and more words and phrases that the page will rank for.

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To expand on @SamA74’s points above, you might find this article on alt text helpful.

http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/

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Dear Sam & TB:
Thank you GREATLY for this in-depth insight. I was aware of that aspect, but wanted to run this by you (see link) in which I had that covered. If you click this link to a sample page, click any thumbnail which opens that same image to a larger version, accompanied with pay buttons to my shopping cart. That page offers a tab reading “Cartoon Details” and directly underneath that is an actual description of the cartoon plus the actual written caption below that specific cartoon.
I did extensive data entry regarding this, and all 5000 different images throughout the site have had this same data entry added for each different image. Now, my next real question is whether or not this was a waste of time (which took me ages it seemed)…

Also looked in my Wordpress Media and can access all 5,000 images and as I click each, this editor opens but see screenshot which pertains to[ this cartoon] (https://danscartoons.com/cartoons/banking/bank-cartoon-14/).Will adding alt text in that box be construed as "duplicate content or any type of manipulation via the search engines? Will any additional text show up oin the page itself? Or simply stay in the code behind the page? THANKS

It shouldn’t be seen as duplicate because each should be different (well, as much as possible) .
caption = kind of like a title
alt text = a brief description
description = a more verbose description that shows near the image

IMHO alt text is crucial for both accessibility and SEO and It should not be seen as SPAM unless you “keyword stuff”

thanks…I have 5,000 images to do this to then. Let me confer with my psychiatrist prior to tackling this huge task

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Few things I need to add in your on-page factors, which are also important for your website to get profitable ranking

  1. Low Content: Currently your website has low text to html ratio (7.98%) and It`s should be more that 10%. Kindly add some relevant content with targeted keywords.

  2. The header tags (H1, H2, H3, H4) are not properly used in this page. You have H1 and H4 but missing H2 and H3. Use header tags properly and in structured manner.

  3. Too Much Internal Link: Currently your page has 5567 internal links and according to google a single should not contain more than 100 links. So it is strongly suggested to reduce the internal links.

  4. Sitemap is missing: Add proper sitemap in your website.

  5. Robots.txt is not optimize: Kindly search and upload the robots.txt specially design for ecommerce website. To stop indexing unnecessary dynamically pages. Find Here: - http://inchoo.net/ecommerce/ultimate-magento-robots-txt-file-examples/

  6. High Loading Time: Currently your website loading time is more than 5 sec, which is very high. Try to solve html and css error to improve website speed and usability.

Pardon my ignorance, but how does an article on Magento Robots file help the person who is running Woocommerce?

Yes sure,
Well for most of the ecommerce website robots.txt are same, to blocks mostly generic pages like tags, wishlist, error file etc.

You can add or remove dynamic and static pages according to your website. But some pages are common for every ecommerce website.

Hope this will help

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I have added (as this example shows in screenshot) the ALT, DESCRIPTION and CAPTION for this cartoon using the Media Library and think this will work for image optimization. However, with 5,000 separate images, I have a monumental task ahead of me. Let me re-read the most recent responses regarding sitemap, although I have the Yoast plugin activated, I did access it and even submitted the 30 separate URLs into Google Webmaster Tools form about 48 hours ago. I could show a screenshot of my sitemap in the Yoast work area if need be. Looking at what needs to be accomplished with SEO in mind, I see a monumental task in front of me, aside from already having invested about 8 intense months in developing this new layout which included re-configuring all 5000 images for auto-downloading, not to mention the arduous data-entry information for all of the WooCommerce variation settings. I lok back at my old FrontPage2002 Windows based HTML site and miss those days…thank you all greatly for these recent insights.

Here is screenshot from in my Yoast SEO settings in my WP admin…I recently submitted each separate URL into that GWT form and did this about two days ago…

And SamA74, might I ask a question regarding:

I also mentioned captioning, this can be done using the figcaption element within a figure element:-

Nice bit of text which describes what's in the picture for the benefit of robots and the visually impared Hilarious caption to accompany the cartoon

How does someone access this code for each cartoon? Do we go into our CSS or?? It would be interesting to see the proper steps for an image

Because it’s Wordpress, I’m not sure, I don’t do Wordpress, I just type code. I assumed the “Caption” field in your earlier screen-shot took the data for captioning. But then it’s not creating any <figcaption> element. I suppose you would have to alter the theme to make it do that, but I don’t know Wordpress.

Good feedback…I need to bookmark this thread but have a stack of other projects I need to focus on, I really appreciate this.

Looking a bit further into fig caption element, would this be possible in attached screenshot? I ask, because then wonder how it could be used to optimized each of the 5,000 images throughout my catalog.

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