Images without text as content

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Images without text as content

is this legal?

bw3ttt

9:40 pm on Sep 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have an image site that shows adsense ads relevant to the images on the page.. When I add alt image text, the ads become irrelevant.. So I've removed the alt image text, but now I'm worried that images only do not qualify as content.. Can anyone who has an image site shed some light?

LunaC

10:01 pm on Sep 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

I have one site that had terrible targeting and the content was mostly images. When I added a short paragraph below the images describing it or giving some background about it the targeting not only got better but I got a surprising amount of new traffic to those pages.

Depending on the design of your site or the content of the images this may not work, but I can say it helped me immensely. Took a bit of work, but worth it imho.

Why your targeting took a nosedive when you removed the alt text is a mystery to me though, I always use it and have seen where the ads are targeted to something I only said in alt. Perhaps there's something else interfering with the targeting?

[edited by: LunaC at 10:03 pm (utc) on Sep. 17, 2007]

bw3ttt

10:23 pm on Sep 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

I think it was keyword repetition that was killing me.. Unfortunately it is unavoidable so the only solution was to remove it altogether..

My CTR tripled when I removed the text..

jomaxx

11:47 pm on Sep 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

I'm fairly certain that it's still against the rules to put ads on pages with no content for the Mediapartners spider to pick up.

However the TOS has been given a makeover since I last read it through, so I'm not sure where you'll find that rule. If all else fails, ask Google directly.

bw3ttt

5:09 am on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

I got too nervous and added the text again and it screwed up the relevancy.. better to have less money than "the letter" from Google..

<sigh>

jomaxx

5:19 am on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

Honestly I'm not even sure ALT text is enough. It would barely give Google enough information to work with, and it means that Google's ads are basically the only text content on the page.

Anyway I have no experience with this kind of site, so I won't pass judgment one way or the other, except to say that it sounds borderline at least.