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Ride45 - 2:53 pm on Mar 8, 2004 (gmt 0)


You may want to even leave the "widgets" out of "widgets button" and just go for "button" which is more to the point. Although I have seen people use ALT text for images by cascading from the top of the page to the bottom starting with their most important search terms at the top and ending with less important ones at the bottom. I have also seen them leave out ALT for small images. Altough, I have ALT text labelled let say as "arrow graphic" about 25 times on one page and I have never been penalized for it.

Actually, I just checked some comeptitor sites and they actually have ALT text stuffed with keywords. It's an obvious attempt to gain rank in SERPS, yet they are #1 in the results! I think it's just a coincidence, where Google just ignores ALT text and looks at the other important stuff like "content" and "backlinks".


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