[Skip to main content](#vessel-content) # image metadata and image naming ## - **[mohrrj](/forum/user/1007-mohrrj "View mohrrj's Profile")** - [![mohrrj's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar1007.jpg)](/forum/user/1007-mohrrj "View mohrrj's Profile") Topic Author - [ Offline](/forum/user/1007-mohrrj) Less More - Posts: 6 - Thank you received: 0 - - 15 years 8 months ago [\#10153](#10153) by [mohrrj](/forum/user/1007-mohrrj "View mohrrj's Profile") *[image metadata and image naming](/forum/4-how-to/10153-image-metadata-and-image-naming#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...")* was created by *[mohrrj](/forum/user/1007-mohrrj "View mohrrj's Profile")* 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? Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzEwMTUzLWltYWdlLW1ldGFkYXRhLWFuZC1pbWFnZS1uYW1pbmc/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. - **[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")** - [![nicolas's Avatar](https://www.hikashop.com/media/kunena/avatars/resized/size144/users/avatar63.png?1793428657)](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") - [ Away](/forum/user/63-nicolas) Less More - Posts: 86541 - Thank you received: 14304 - - 15 years 8 months ago [\#10171](#10171) by [nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile") Replied by *[nicolas](/forum/user/63-nicolas "View nicolas's Profile")* on topic *[Re: image metadata and image naming](/forum/4-how-to/10153-image-metadata-and-image-naming#10171 "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...")* 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. Please [Log in](/login?return=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaGlrYXNob3AuY29tL2ZvcnVtLzQtaG93LXRvLzEwMTUzLWltYWdlLW1ldGFkYXRhLWFuZC1pbWFnZS1uYW1pbmc/dG1wbD1tYXJrZG93bg==) or [Create an account](/component/users/registration?Itemid=101) to join the conversation. Board Categories HikaShop Install & Update Product & Category Display Content Creation Sales and Orders Orders management Reports & Statistics Customers Checkout Payment Methods Shipping Methods Import & Export (CSV, XLS…) Specific Features Affilation Taxes Wishlist Vote Carousel & Slider Mass Actions Filters & Search Discount & Coupon Feature Request Integrations Showcase General Talk about HikaShop Development HikaShop 3.0 Beta Translation Commercial Jobs HikaShop Components HikaMarket Market: Feature requests Market: How to? Market: Bug Report HikaSerial General talk about HikaSerial Serial: Bug Report Serial: How to? Support en Français de HikaSerial (French Support) HikaSubscription HikaAuction Auction: Feature requests Auction: How to? Auction: Bug report Hikashop around the world Support en Français (French Support) Russian FAQ. Курс выживания с Hikashop. Частые вопросы и о Расширения Hikashop Наши сайты на Hikashop 日本語版サポート(Japanese Support) Thai German Archives Bug Report How to? [](/forum/topics/feed/mode-topics?format=feed&type=rss) Time to create page: 0.041 seconds [Powered by](/forum/credits) [Kunena Forum](https://www.kunena.org)