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I looked closer at the text Google provided for the page, and it looked weird. Too many repetitions. I looked into my sourcecode, and I couldn't find one of the phrases Google presented. Then I looked at my template, and I saw the phrase in the ALT tag!
If Google deems the ALT content as important enough to present to the surfer, it must be surely considered as on-page factor when determining ranking.
Any thoughts or similar experiences?
Hehe. Disallow Googlebot /images :)
If Google deems the ALT content as important enough to present to the surfer, it must be surely considered as on-page factor when determining ranking.
It is *likley*, but how much weight is given is not known.
Disallow Googlebot /images
But make sure you remove the width="5" heights="5" from the html that does get spidered.
Oops...
If the image tags read like a concise sentence describing the image (and you can get away from the repetative phrases for a minute), there is the off-chance those ALT tags could qualify for that type of software and be quite normal.
[edited by: pendanticist at 10:34 am (utc) on Jan. 2, 2004]
yes, you should :)
Of course they are, and I'm not talking about keyword stuffing. Just that it can pay off to use them with care.
Are the images links?
I know in the past all alt was read but I read here that alt was now only read if the image was a link.
Yes. thanks for the point.
Sorry, but I don't see that in your initial post. :)
Could you elaborate on this "template" thing and how you did not know the tags in question were present?
Of course :) My content and the look (view) are completely separated. I change them independently from each other.
Btw, by "too many repetitions" I mean 3 occurrences.
Template:
<html>
<div class="navigation">
<a href="order.html">
<img src="blub.jpg" alt="order widget"/>
</a>
</div>
<div class="content">
$page.content
</div>
</html>
Page src:
<xml>
<page>
<content>
Welcome to Widget Outlet! Our widgets are the best of the world.
</content>
</page>
</xml>
