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When my home page was designed we placed all the copy into an image for formatting and layout reasons. There's not a lot of it but I was wondering if the alt attribute tag should have all the text that is shown in the image so robots can pick up on keywords.
Will they even pick up on alt tag content?
Alt tags should indeed have keywords in them, but it must be brief and should pertain to the image.
You need to get rid of the image and put it in text format.
So, basically if the image is all text the alt tag should be blank or brief. I guess it does look bad if you have a huge alt description pop up.
Do you think my meta tags should have me covered or does content count for a lot too?
There is more information about making your site successful in this forum than you will know what to do with......start reading!
The most important things, in my opinion, are...
1.) Making sure your pages have a title that will look good to a web searcher. (Look for your keywords on a search engine, and see which page titles are the most appealing for starters... Which ones would YOU want to visit?)
2.) Making sure you have enough quality content to keep the visitor on your site after they click on that fabulous title, and...
3.) Making sure enough other sites link to yours using that fabulous title or an equally good text description that the search engines realize how important your site is while they're out crawling links.
content is king content is king content is king content is king content is king.... : )
And be careful to avoid excessive repetition. The engines might see this one as spam. ;)
