Beter image SEO function
 

Could someone help me with some code to drop in my functions.php to have beter image SEO.

When i write a post i always set a custom image title tag for my images.

But what i want is when the alt tag is empty the image title tag is taken to set the alt tag.

This function isn't working:

/** Auto-Generate ALT tag for images */
function image_alt_tag($content)
{global $post;preg_match_all('/<img (.*?)\/>/', $content, $images);
if(!is_null($images)) {foreach($images[1] as $index => $value)
{if(!preg_match('/alt=/', $value)){
$new_img = str_replace('<img', '<img alt="'.get_the_title().'"', $images[0][$index]);
$content = str_replace($images[0][$index], $new_img, $content);}}}
return $content;
}
add_filter('the_content', 'image_alt_tag', 99999);

Why go through all this extra work instead of just writing good alt tags. Alt tags are much more important to SEO than a title tag so that should be the best practice for adding images. Additionally, alt tags really shouldn't be the same as title tags.