You will be taken to the screen below.

Choose your image you want to add either from the gallery or from uploading it.

I chose one from my gallery ( See circle )

Now we are going to add some things over on the right ( See above arrow )

My main keyword for this post is Mark Sanchez so I am going to take that keyword and I am going to add it to the title box, the alt text box and the description box. ( See arrows below )

You will have to scroll down to get all three boxes visible.



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NWTDennis Premium
Can you do this for an image already inserted or must the image be deleted and placed again? I can't seem to locate the Link To box in the edit image mode.
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Shawn Martin Premium
That is the million dollar question that I do not have an answer for but lets hope someone comes along and answers that for us.
I am with you on wanting to go back through older posts and pages and fix them, which is what I am assuming you are thinking. :)
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BobBarr Premium
Clicking on the image while editing the page will make all of these settings available to you but not directly. You'll need to click on the pencil icon (between the alignment buttons and the remove button) to access those options.
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Shawn Martin Premium
I did try that but the boxes are labeled differently.
If we can nail this part I will add it to the tutorial for sure!
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BobBarr Premium
Perhaps we're using two different editors. I have the WP Edit plugin installed on all of my sites.

When I click on an image while editing a page, I see five icons across the top of it: Align left, Align center, Align right, No alignment, Edit (a pencil), and Remove (an X).

Clicking on the Edit icon opens a new pane with caption, alt text, alignment, size, and linking options. Clicking on "Advanced Options" at the bottom of that pane displays further options for setting the image's title and CSS class.
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Shawn Martin Premium
Mine is the same way, but people need to know which box is the description, title, and alt text.
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BobBarr Premium
The alt text entry box is near the top of the new pane when you first click on the "Edit" icon on the image. The title entry box is hidden until you click on "Advanced Options".

I'm a bit unclear what you're referring to by the term "description". Could that be an image attribute that I'm unaware of? (The caption, alt text, and title fields are all familiar to me but not the description.)
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Shawn Martin Premium
Go to page 3 of the tutorial and scroll down to the screen shot with the three arrows, we need to know what those three boxes are labeled on the edit screen you get when you click the pencil
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BobBarr Premium
Thanks, Shawn. I missed that in the tutorial. I'll try putting different text in those three fields and seeing what it does to the code generated for the image. I'll be back in a few minutes to report what I've found.

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I'm not quite sure of what to make of this. After editing the caption, alt text, title, and description fields in the image gallery, I inserted an image into a test page. The code generated for the image was:

(Sorry, the WA software is choking on the HTML code that I just
tried to paste)

The caption text is getting displayed under the image. The alt text is being put into the image's alt= field. The text that I put into the title and description fields, though, is nowhere to be found.
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NWTDennis Premium
Hey Shawn ... I took another look and this time the "Link To" in the Edit screen (the pencil) IS there, and it has the pull down option "None" just like you said.

The Image Edit Screen is called Image Details and the top box has windows for Caption and Alternative Text. The middle box is called Display Settings and has windows for Align, Size, and Link To. The bottom box is called Advanced Options has windows for Image Title Attribute, Image CSS Class, Link Rel, Link CSS Class plus a button to open window in a new window/tab.

I think your procedure works in the edit mode. Sorry for the confusion I may have started.
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NWTDennis Premium
It's me again. I'm re-reading your procedure and now have another question. On Page 1 you say ... "Today I want to show you the proper way to SEO your first picture of any post or page you may be creating."

Does this mean that literally ONLY the first Image of each post or page needs to have this "Link To" change to NONE??
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Sherion Premium
Thank you for another great tutorial!
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Shawn Martin Premium
You are too kind :)
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Linlin Premium
Thanks Shawn!
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Shawn Martin Premium
You bet!
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jasontw111 Premium
Great tutorial, if I were adding lets say 10 images to a post thats targeting one specific keyword is it ok to do this on everyone of them?
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Shawn Martin Premium
No, I would just stick to the first one, that is the one Google will pick up on a crawl, and you do not want to be keyword stuffing.
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jasontw111 Premium
Cheers Shawn
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JoeMag23 Premium
I enjoyed your tutorial. Thanks for the navigation. I didn't take these many notes when I was in school. :)
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Shawn Martin Premium
LOL< Glad you liked it :)
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