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Alt text as title in SERPs

         

roodle

12:19 pm on Sep 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I've recently restructured a small niche site and G has been in and re-indexed most of the new pages. Something I've noticed though is that when I search for "keyword1 keyword2", which happen to also be the company name, the title of the homepage in the SERPs is the same as the Alt text ("keyword1 keyword2 anotherword") of the logo image, the first image in the page code, and which links back sitewide to the homepage.

I realise this is common practice but has anyone seen this before in the SERPs?

The exact same alt text phrase was used on the previous version of the site and I never saw this happening.

Brett_Tabke

1:18 pm on Sep 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Is it ALT text or is it title="foo" attribute text?

I ask because I have seen google mistake a title attribute for the page title. (if the head tag is maligned). (eg: an error in Google indexer html error handling)

roodle

2:11 pm on Sep 4, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Yes you're right. The title attribute of the image (not the link) is identical. Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

This was also the case in the previous version of the site.