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Originally Posted by Dave Hawley
I wouldn't stuff keywords into Alt tags of blank spacer gifs. Google *might* see this as 'spammy'. Not worth the risk IMO.
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Right now it's safe to assume that Google can't "see" what a given image is, so they can't tell what is a valid image and what isn't. Though I imagine such small sizes and names like "spacer" would be a giveaway.
At most, I just have the page title dynamically placed in the alt attribute; 1 or 2 words. I wouldn't put more than a few words of alt text into any image.
But I do agree that the risk is there and there is no real proof that alt text helps anyway.