SEO is one of the greater challenges while using platforms like shopify, I found myself spending half of my time describing and writing alt-texts. Now with the capabilities of AI to define images and the AI incorporation of shopify into the platform, it would be amazing to have this dry job to be a…

I put together an automation workflow template to create alt text using an AI algorithm - https://blog.getmesa.com/how-to-write-product-image-alt-tags-using-ai/ It works by sending the image to an API on replicate.com which generates text based on the image and then pass that over the Shopify API i…

Ah gotcha. Yeah bummer that we can’t get access to all the images on the site.

Hi Yotamcuralife, There are several shopify apps helping with this challenge. I’ve done one which is called VisionTag AI: https://apps.shopify.com/ai-from-image-to-description-1 There is a free trial so would be great to get some feedback. It can do several languages and produce all from tags to …

Again, this is working only for product images.. (that are maybe only 5% of my shop images) :pensive_face: This is why I ask for a built in solution that can be really benficial, or at least to open the access to media files for developers.

The above solution supports both product images and all image files: https://apps.shopify.com/ai-from-image-to-description-1

Hi. It’s great to be here together discussing AI. AI is very popular at the moment and since chatgpt was pioneered, many shopify apps and other industries have joined AI. SEOAnt - AI SEO Optimizer is a program to improve store SEO, go for higher natural traffic and thus increase sales. It is als…

AI helps most when it’s actually looking at the image and describing what’s there, not just reusing product titles or SEO metafields. That shift alone improves both accessibility and how search engines interpret the content. Short, natural language like “White cotton button-up shirt on hanger” is m…

How can AI improve alt-text creation for better SEO?

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yotamcuralife October 18, 2023, 9:20am 3

Thats really cool, but every solution/app that I bump into includes only product images (that makes sense cause probably these are the only images that has access through API). But product images are like only 2% of my overall site images..

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