: Redundant Image Tagging and SEO This question is more for the SEO specialists. I am creating a B2B website in which I will have repetitive images showing in my Portfolio section, in a slideshow

@Nimeshi995

The good news is, Google (and Bing) will not penalize you for having the same alt text on multiple images. Let's say you have five images of Corgi puppies hanging out, not doing anything particular. It would be okay to apply an alt text of "Corgi Puppy" to all of them, since this is technically the correct description for all these images.

Titles on images are nice to have, but don't have much impact on rankings or indexation of images.

When adding or leaving out alt tags, think of assistive technologies like screen readers. They could benefit from the alt text on all your images, even similar ones. If your image is important to the page content, you should include alt text; if it's not (such as a background image), use the empty alt tag.

Image file names do play a role, since search engines read those file names. Don't forget to use descriptive ones for your images.

You can also include only the images that you want indexed in your XML sitemap. You can either include them in your regular page and post sitemap, or create a separate image XML sitemap. Make sure that the ones you don't care about are left out.

Finally, you can use robots.txt to exclude the URL's of the images you don't want indexed.

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