Comments on: Image Alt Attribute Confession and Impact http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/image-alt-attribute-confession-and-impact/ Discussion of Online Marketing, SEM, Social Media, Mobile and Video, Micro-Content, and Affiliate Marketing Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mike Murray http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/image-alt-attribute-confession-and-impact/#comment-10515 Mike Murray Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:36:45 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=2741#comment-10515 Thanks for the comments. The whole issue of optimization is compounded by overall site architecture, keyword themes, the number and quality of inbound links, site age, etc. Heather's comments about density contribute to the results. Unfortunately, any one factor - density, site age, domain name, page names, header names - gets lost in the crowd. In other words, you don't really know what's having the biggest impact, especially if you put all of the elements in place at one time. I do think alt tags can contribute to density. Heather's note about clustering is especially important, especially with anchor text of links on your pages. My alt/image dilemma over the years has been clouded by the fact that I've helped many websites rank well on Google (top 5) for compeititive keywords without worrying about alt attributes. That just means something else is working well too. Thanks for the comments. The whole issue of optimization is compounded by overall site architecture, keyword themes, the number and quality of inbound links, site age, etc. Heather's comments about density contribute to the results. Unfortunately, any one factor – density, site age, domain name, page names, header names – gets lost in the crowd. In other words, you don't really know what's having the biggest impact, especially if you put all of the elements in place at one time. I do think alt tags can contribute to density. Heather's note about clustering is especially important, especially with anchor text of links on your pages. My alt/image dilemma over the years has been clouded by the fact that I've helped many websites rank well on Google (top 5) for compeititive keywords without worrying about alt attributes. That just means something else is working well too.

]]> By: Aurelius Tjin http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/image-alt-attribute-confession-and-impact/#comment-10514 Aurelius Tjin Thu, 22 Nov 2007 07:18:03 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=2741#comment-10514 I'm open to any possibility that can up my page rank. So, I may try this one. :) I'm open to any possibility that can up my page rank. So, I may try this one. :)

]]> By: Heather Paulson http://www.revenews.com/search-engine-marketing/image-alt-attribute-confession-and-impact/#comment-10513 Heather Paulson Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:29:41 +0000 http://revenews.contentrobot.com/?p=2741#comment-10513 Hello, There are regions of bot scrutiny within the code of any web page that when readable all applicable regions are weighted together concerning the keyword density percentage for the keywords you are trying to achieve placement for concerning that page. Regionality is dependent on the "coding" environment. The alt density attributes should always be included within the pages statistical density spread when statistically measuring keyword density patterns on all additional regions on the page. Density levels are weighted by statistical keyword spread on the page for the "cluster" of keywords you are trying to achieve placement for, so anchor text, semantic variants, Root term descriptors, compound word structures properly weighted and placed within these regions of bot scrutiny all factor into the statistical page content density levels..(20% Density top - 15% Density Mid page or 50% Density bottom page - percentages change with vertical and competitor levels) etc.. I have tested alt percentage density spreads based on the regions of the page against many competitor levels along with other region specific clusters on a page and found that alt statistical page weighting is in fact relevant. Now we have Google's Universal search impacting this density spread other regions on page and off now will impact the whole site - social media, video, naming SWF's, images, .doc files, .pdf's, blog content, Press, etc... It is going to get interesting.... Hello,

There are regions of bot scrutiny within the code of any web page that when readable all applicable regions are weighted together concerning the keyword density percentage for the keywords you are trying to achieve placement for concerning that page. Regionality is dependent on the "coding" environment.

The alt density attributes should always be included within the pages statistical density spread when statistically measuring keyword density patterns on all additional regions on the page.

Density levels are weighted by statistical keyword spread on the page for the "cluster" of keywords you are trying to achieve placement for, so anchor text, semantic variants, Root term descriptors, compound word structures properly weighted and placed within these regions of bot scrutiny all factor into the statistical page content density levels..(20% Density top – 15% Density Mid page or 50% Density bottom page – percentages change with vertical and competitor levels) etc.. I have tested alt percentage density spreads based on the regions of the page against many competitor levels along with other region specific clusters on a page and found that alt statistical page weighting is in fact relevant.

Now we have Google's Universal search impacting this density spread other regions on page and off now will impact the whole site – social media, video, naming SWF's, images, .doc files, .pdf's, blog content, Press, etc…

It is going to get interesting….

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