Of Tags and File Names

[Kaspian]

I know that alt tags can give a little nudge in a page clawing its way up the ranks, but with title tags in links, which benefits from the tag, the target page or the page the link is on?

Part two of my quest, file names. Let's say I was had an article that dealt with smelly feet and it had some images on the page. If each image was named "smelly_feet_1.jpg", "smelly_feet_2.jgp", and so forth, then all of these files were kept in their own folder, ie. "../images/smelly_feet/smelly_feet_1.jpg", and I wanted to get this page a top ranking for the search term "smelly feet" would the file and folder names hold anymore weight in the eyes of the search engines (predominantly Google)? I remember reading that key words in the page name helped, but what about file names?

[idiotgirl]

I did this on a test site about 5 months ago and it went straight to number 1 within 60 days under my targeted search term. I did a lot of things with that site as a dry run to see what might happen. I can't say it was what made it happen, but I don't see that it hurt. I also used descriptive alt tags on all the 'like' named images.

Cheap? Spam? Maybe. But it worked. There was also a lot of pertinent, legitimate content. Don't think you could pull it off without that.

Smelly feet? Out goes foo, in comes smelly feet. Yes - the web - she is a'changin'.