We made it. It’s 2025. We just started the wild ride that will last until the end of this year’s December. The United States is two days into its coldest January in over a decade, the U.S. Treasury Department will continue its quest to purchase a million bitcoin, and, as of Wednesday, all of us are free to use Popeye imagery and storytelling however we like. Popeye just joined Steamboat Willie in the public domain.
Regardless of your thoughts about the stuff we just mentioned, the best thing you can do with your time in 2025 is make use of our GeoBooster ALT text generator. If you’re unfamiliar with ALT text, think of it like image captions. It can serve a number of purposes, but its primary uses are: 1) improving accessibility for people with vision impairments (or people with painfully slow internet), and 2) letting search engines know the content of any given image.
You can enter ALT text on your own, without our OpenAI integration. There is SEO value in concise, accurate image descriptions, but Google will punish you for blatant keyword stuffing. Our generate description button performs this task perfectly. Like the review responses we went over last week, you’ll need your own OpenAI API key to take advantage of this feature. Click here if you need instructions for obtaining an API key from OpenAI.
We don’t have time for much else this week, so we’re going to jump right into some closing links.
First, we have a listicle from Hootsuite that goes over 21 best practices for Instagram marketing. Next, to circle back to something we mentioned in the opening paragraph, we have a video from the ColdFusion YouTube channel that analyzes The Treasure Department’s scheme to purchase a million bitcoin. Finally, from Buffer, we have an influencer marketing guide that complements the Hootesuite link nicely.
We hope all of you had a great New Year’s Day. See you next week.