It wouldn't be impossible...google & images

Does google OCR your images?

[CFSusan]

I know, it seems nuts but I swear sites that have images with keywords in an image (I don't mean alt text here) seem to do better. In fact, I don't see any top ranking webpages for any of my keywords that don't have an image with their #1 keyword as the first thing on the page. I even tried it on one of my sites. I added a very legible gif (with my keyword on it) to the very top left corner of my site. That was the only change I made that crawl (no new incoming links) and I jumped up quite a bit. If I were google I would read images because it would be pretty hard to cheat at it. I don't know, maybe I've gone googly.

-Susan

[Marcia]

>maybe I've gone googly

Haven't we all! Welcome to the board, Susan.

I assume you're talking about keywords as part of the image - in the graphic - and not the filename of the image. Is that right?

[CFSusan]

Marcia, that is correct.

[martinibuster]

I just did a quick check but didn't find the same results. I used the words from the graphics of a clients web site.

There was an article in Nytimes the other day, in the technology section, about how ocr technology gets fooled online.

[nell]

I've done some keyword stuffing using the old z-index trick layering under fixed position images but was caught out on it. No longer do it. At the time it made a big difference.