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Free Plugin by watermelon-joy v3.2.16

Image SEO

Improve your images alt, title, captions and filenames for better SEO rankings.

Image SEO

The facts

Rating
3.4★ from 58
Active installs
1k+
Price
Free
Last updated
25 Aug 2026
Added
Dec 2018
Requires WP
5.8
Tested up to
WP 7.1
Requires PHP
7.0
Downloads
97,764

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Image SEO is a WordPress plugin designed to optimize image alt texts, titles, and captions for better SEO performance. It uses AI to automate the process, allowing you to optimize images during upload or in bulk from your media library. This plugin is particularly useful for those looking to enhance their site's accessibility and search engine ranking through improved image metadata.

Ideal for photographers, journalists, agencies, and bloggers, Image SEO helps increase organic and social traffic by ensuring images are properly tagged and optimized. It also generates social media preview cards for various platforms, enhancing your content's visibility online.

Best for: This plugin suits photographers, journalists, and bloggers looking to improve their image SEO.

What it does well

  • Automates image alt tags, titles, and captions using AI
  • Supports bulk optimization of existing media library images
  • Generates social media preview cards using Open Graph protocol
  • Compatible with WooCommerce and popular gallery plugins

Where it falls short

  • Limited to 10 images/month for free users
  • Premium features require a paid plan
  • No detailed performance metrics provided

Verdict

Image SEO offers a straightforward way to enhance image optimization for better search visibility. While it has limitations for free users, its AI-driven features may appeal to those serious about SEO.

From the developer

watermelon-joy's own description of Image SEO, lightly tidied.

Optimize images alternative texts, titles and captions with SEO friendly content. This process can be done directly on upload or by bulk optimizing your media library. Save time while also improving your accessibility and SEO ranking.

Beside alt tags, titles and captions, ImageSEO also generates Social Media preview cards for your posts, pages and galleries using the Open Graph protocol (og tag).

You can also manually edit or optimize the alt tags and filenames directy from your Media Library.

Optimize images through AI

ImageSEO helps grow organic and social traffic. Auto optimize your images alt, captions, filenames and titles for SEO using Artificial Intelligence.
The plugin is ideal for photographers, journalists, newspapers, agencies, bloggers.

Why use Image SEO WordPress plugin ?

To grow your organic traffic : more than 20% of Google searches comes from Google Images.
To increase your position in the SERP you need to optimize your ALT texts and rename your files.

Getting started with Image SEO ?

Step 1 : download and activate ImageSEO.
Step 2 : create an account on ImageSEO from the plugin dashboard to get an API Key.
Step 3 : Enter and save your API Key.
Step 4 : Bulk optimize your images, and improve your images SEO ranking.

ImageSEO learning centre: https://imageseo.io/documentation/getting-started-wordpress/
ImageSEO best practices : https://imageseo.io/blog

How does ImageSEO work ?

We use Artificial Intelligences (AI) to analyze your images and fill out your alt tags, titles, captions and file names with the best results.

Features

  • Auto write images alt tags, captions, titles and filenames when you upload images in the Library.
  • Generate social media cards for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest.
  • Image bulk optimization: automatically rewrites with SEO friendly content your missing alt tags, titles, captions and image names.
  • See how many alternative texts (alt) are missing
  • Compatibility with WooCommerce, Featured images and WordPress Gallery Plugins: NextGEN, Photo Gallery, Responsive Photo Gallery, FooGallery.

What about the Premium?

Image SEO is free for small websites (10 images/month). Premium plans start at 4,99€ and increases your images optimization limit to 100. We offer professional support to premium users and payment are secured by Stripe. More info here : https://imageseo.io/pricing/

Read the full description on the official page →

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