Image SEO with AI Descriptions: The 2026 Playbook

Image SEO with AI Descriptions: The 2026 Playbook A few months ago I ran a quick audit on a client's ecommerce site - 1,400 product photos, 3 blog posts a week with embedded images, a "shop the look" page that was basically a Pinterest board. I wanted to see how many of those images had alt text. Twelve percent. Twelve percent of the images on a six-figure ecommerce had any alt attribute at all, and most of those were either empty strings or "image1.jpg." This is normal. Most sites are like this.