Multiple Links on one page

[Pegasus]

I posted a message about this earlier, but it seems to have gone or been moved. :(

On my site, I have a graphical navigation bar at the top, and keyworded text links at the bottom.

I have a feeling Google is only looking at the first instance of each link on the page, and is therefore not considering the text of my links at the bottom of the page.

Does anyone else know if this is the case?

[BGumble]

With the same keywords in alt attributes of your top image links, should there be any difference to the spider?

[Pegasus]

I thought Google was ignoring ALT tags now.

[ciml]

I have often wondered about this, Pegasus. I had tests (not current though), showing that for PageRank purposes two links from one page to another counted just once, but I don't know what happens to the link text. Your suggestion of taking just the first does make sense.

> I thought Google was ignoring ALT tags now.

Yes, if the image is not in a link. alt text in an image inside a link counts both as body text and as link text (judging from last month, anyway).

[swerve]

ciml writes:

I had tests (not current though), showing that for PageRank purposes two links from one page to another counted just once, but I don't know what happens to the link text. Your suggestion of taking just the first does make sense

I have a few sites that have a logo graphic in the top left corner. I always link this logo to the site's main URL. I also link to the site's main URL lower on the page, using appropriate keywords for anchor text. If the logo link is counted and the text link isn't, then I lose the benefit of my chosen anchor text...

I know I can place the same anchor text in the alt tag of the image, but there seems to be some consensus here that text-based links count "more" than image links with ALT text...