Table cell background image
In an article at seochat.com I read that the top image on your site should be a table cell with a background image of your logo. It says to set the alt text of that image to the search phrase you are attempting to target. How do I set the alt text for a background image of a table cell?
demonhale posted this at 01:40 — 23rd June 2005.
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best to put search keywords inside META Tags though...
chrishirst posted this at 05:33 — 23rd June 2005.
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And another search engine myth is born !!!
Busy posted this at 10:07 — 23rd June 2005.
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I think it should read: the top image on your site should be your logo with alt tag, possibly place in a table (or standalone or via CSS).
Tables can have titles and summarys but not alt tags. Search do not reference title or summary tags.
Is bad advice putting logo as background for many reasons, one is printing (backgrounds are mostly off by default), so unless it prints out the web address or you have your name elsewhere no one will know where they printed it from.
chrishirst posted this at 13:25 — 23rd June 2005.
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alt attribute
artsapimp posted this at 14:08 — 23rd June 2005.
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This is the text from the article. In the article the word background is set to italics.
The article is "How to Steal to the Top of Google, part 1". I have attached a link incase anyone wants to discuss any other problems they might have listed.
http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Google-Optimization-Help/How-to-Steal-to-the-Top-of-Google-part-1/
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Roo posted this at 15:19 — 23rd June 2005.
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Okay, but you should be setting table cell background images in css and calling them via td class= What is the date of the article you read? Is it old? Is the person who wrote it coding to standards?
Personally, I've never heard of including alt with images used *table cell backgrounds* even when it was common back in html 4.0.
To say that your logo *should* be a table cell background is just totally wrong. That's the most rediculoous thing I've heard in a long time.
Roo
chrishirst posted this at 15:33 — 23rd June 2005.
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just the usual formula crap from the usual suspects.
Following this kind of algo chasing stuff is why there is a sudden rush of threads at places like SEOChat, WMW, SEW etc asking "why has my site disappeared now Google have updated" every time there is an update.
Build a site for visitors using correct page structure and markup. It takes a little longer for results to show, but the site won't disappear every few weeks then you have to mess about with the latest and greatest "secret" to Google rankings.
Chris
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artsapimp posted this at 15:34 — 23rd June 2005.
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article is dated 4/19/05.
So is there a standard "best" way to optimize a website for the search engines?
artsapimp posted this at 16:01 — 23rd June 2005.
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I posted that last message before I saw the one from chris. I know his formula is pretty simple. Does anyone else have a guideline they use for optimization?
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