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Originally Posted by wige
Not trying to attack your strategy, just get some better idea of what you are trying to accomplish with this method
Couldn't this hurt accessibility, because the text to speech software has to read alt tags that are not related to the page content?
What type of link are you trying to get? The only incoming link I can think that this would gain is a link from a Search engine image search function, which would be unlikely to generate much traffic, since users that see a design element in the results will likely ignore it, and which would not gain any SEO benefit since these links are invisible to other search engines.
Could this not trip a spam filter? Especially if you are repeating keywords that are not present in the rest of the document or using the keyword more in the alt text than in the page text surrounding the image? |
The webpro banner at the top could be divided into separate images yet still generate the link to the home page. Why can't you put an alt tag on the logo part? Many sites have a logo or an image in the upper left anyways. the alt could read web pro world your source for
SEO. You would not be penalized for this. Even if the page had a solid color down the right side as a right border it could be alted "right border image web pro world your forum for IT" Weither or not someone clicks on the image when they search pictures it still creates a link to an image on your site and a link to your site just gives you another link. The search engine does not know that it is a solid color or a picture. It does not know that it is important or not. You are giving it relavance by alting it so there for it is relavant to the content of the site.
If you have an ecommerce site and you are selling widgets if you alt pictures as "blue widget" "Red Widget" are you getting penalised for excessive use of the word widget?
You could get more specific like"blue widget as it flys throught the air" if your widget is a plane or frisbee. The more content the better in alts. Using keywords in alts does not penalized you it can only help.