Hi Charlotte! Linking to the same post twice in one article actually divides the link “juice”. It can also potentially be seen by Google as spammy, which will also lessen the great impact you have when you link to yourself.
Thanks for reading!
~Jenny, Mediavine Marketing Manager

Hey Han, the description should be about 2 sentences long, and contain your keyword. It can be the same thing as the alt text if you want, but if you can vary it, Eric and I are always of the mind that that is better, especially because the alt text is meant to be an accessibility feature for those that can’t actually see the photo. It should be descriptive in nature so that blind visitors can know what’s there.

Captions can be the same as descriptions, but the difference is that caption appears in the actual blog post. So if you don’t want that appearing under your photos, no need to put anything there.

When we name images on Food Fanatic, we follow this nomenclature: Keyword Photo, Keyword Picture, Keyword Image, Keyword Pic etc etc. If your post was about banana muffins, your image names would be things like “Banana Muffins Photo” and “Banana Muffins Image” – this helps with google image search.

Hope that helps!

Amber, Co-Founder

For the image alt, title and description is there any advice as to what they should be? At the moment I dont have a description (is that the same as the caption?) as it loads pretty ugly and its information I put in the article and the alt and title are more or less the same – a short description of what the image shows.

thanks

Thank you for the compliment, Anjali! We don’t like overcomplicated.

Hey Emily!

A keyword is too competitive if all the sites ranking in the top 10 are huge sites that you’re not near the size of. Think Food Network, Martha Stewart, etc. If some of the sites in the top 10 are more bloggers like yourself, you have a better chance of ranking in the top 10.

When I search for things for Food Fanatic, I personally shoot for anything that has 250 searches a month and up.