keyword weight

[osmosis]

Hi all, can I pose a question?
will I loose keyword weight by not closing the anchor tag after my img

can I use
<a href="http://site.com"><img src="images/thing.gif">Keyword</a>

instead of

<a href="http://site.com"><img src="images/thing.gif"></a><a href="http://site.com">Keyword</a>

will the image be seen as the link only, by the spider, or will the keyword be given weight (can spiders follow through the image to the keyword) I ask this as I am using CSS to highlight the text link but would prefer the text to be highlighted on mouseover of the image as well. Hope that makes sense.

Thanks for your time...Os

[troels nybo nielsen]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, osmosis.

I don't think you will have any problems with your prefered solution.