Issue with og:image:alt not being translated

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  • Resolved Hempika
    Rank Math pro

    Hi there!

    I have an issue with og:image:alt meta.

    When I translate my product page or any other page via WPML this meta is not translated and I do not see it in source code (Only in default language. English in my case). Every other meta like og:title, og:description, og:url etc. is translated correctly and shown in source.

    This results in my translated images not ranking on Google even though they have translated ALTs. I came to this conclusion because no product image ranks for Slovenian keywords.

    Could there be a problem with your plugin? I never had this issue with other SEO plugins as Yoast etc.

    Please HELP! I want to keep using your plugin in the future but this needs to be fixed.

    Regards, Luka

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  • Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us. Sorry for the delay and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    The og:image:alt is taken from the ALT text of your image. You will have to translate the alt text of your image in order to use it in the og:image:alt tag for your translated pages. Here is a guide on how to translate the on-page text using WPML: https://rankmath.com/kb/multilingual-seo-wpml/#translating-content

    And the og:image:alt has nothing to do with your images being indexed in the search results. It is only used for social sharing. Can you please share the URL of a translated post so we can check and assist you further? Also share some keywords for which your post is being indexed but no images are shown in the search results.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Hello,

    I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?

    Thank you.

    Hi!

    Thank you for your answer.

    Somehow I managed to erase my response when I uploaded the sensitive data 😉

    He will give 2 examples:

    Woocommerce product:

    I use the main image of the product, which I translated ALT into Slovenian. The translation of this image is not visible in the source code. It always calls the English version. The picture ranks only for English KW and not for Slovenian.

    Web page:

    I use 3 images on the page. All of these images are added within the page. All translated alts are visible. But still, the English version is in og:image:alt. These Slovenian images are ranked on Google, as they are visible in the source code of the page.

    I also attach RANKMATH custom fields for WPML.

    However, I do not believe that this og:image:alt has nothing to do with the ranking of the translated product image, because it is the only image on the product page and the translated alt is not visible in the source code.

    Plese help 🙂

    I have fixed the issue!

    You need to do the following on product pages and classic pages:

    Duplicate uploaded media to translations
    Duplicate featured image to translations

    Thank you guys!

    Hello,

    We are super happy that you have found a solution to resolve your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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