image metadata and image naming

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13 years 8 months ago #10153

I have to do a lot of image editing and organization for my products. I am doing this work in Lightroom 3 and can add meta data with titles, keywords, etc. Is there anyway that hikashop can read this metadata from the images and populate the fields or do I have to get it into a spreadsheet and import. Also, is it important to name the images with text that can be picked up by a search engine for someone searching in the "images" mode of google or other engine or can will the engine get the text from the product page and associate it with its image?

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13 years 8 months ago #10171

HikaShop does not have any code to retrieve the EXIF metadata from the images to populate the file name and file description.
Filling the nameof your images correctly as well as giving a proper name to them is really important for images indexing by search engines.
The main factor used in the ALT text of your images. HikaShop will automatically use the name of your image in the ALT tag so you really should set it correctly.
Then comes the surrounding text (hikashop cannot do much about it) and the file name, so it should also be explicit.
Then comes the page title and metadata which will be set automatically by hikashop based on your products/categories information.

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