shags38

Hi all,

just looking for some advice here.

1. IMAGES - ALT vs Title - it appears ALT when referred to in SEO terms is actually the "source" SRC for the image and not the Title as my CMS program indicates to me when I do a page SEO Analysis in the CMS program.
The things you learn after the fact ... *sigh
QUESTION ..... If I change the decription of the image to meet the best SEO (example, site is about red apples but all my images just say fruit so are missing the main keywords) .... do I then have to delete the existing image on the page and then re-load the renamed image (I tend to think so but am hoping not - I have 7 sites live and truck loads of images)
Question 2. .... I assume the same would apply to images used in a "movie" I made using Windows MovieMaker - does the crawler see the images used in a movie / slideshow?

Talking about SlideShows - opinions please on the best program for making slideshows for websites that do not require me to be a code wizard - pay, shareware and freeware types if you can recommend different ones. I have tried a couple of shearewares but cannot get rid of the watermarks and am reticent to pay for the full version without some sort of "referals" - free is better than paying however I don't want something that requires me to be a web design expert which I certainly am not.

Question 3 ..... Backlink Quality - I have 7 sites live however I own just over 2000 domains most of which have topic / subject commonality with 6 of my live sites. If I parked those domains, well say about 500 or so, and put links from them to the 6 live sites what "Quality" factor would the big G spiders attribute to such links - the URL would indicate similar subject however there would be very little if any content on the parked sites. I kinda figure they should be regarded as least as highly as a purchased link given that the crawlers should see these links as natural ???
I would appreciate opinions / advice on the above. You will see a couple of my sites in my signature (they fall into the DIY BackYarder category ........ however they rank well PR3 and PR4)
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So I look forward to seeing some feedback.

cheers,
Mike

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enlytend

I don't know what CMS you're talking about, but ALT has nothing to do with the source. It is intended as a description of the image for people who are using a browser which doesn't display images (i.e. text readers for the blind) or with images turned off.

Search engines don't "see" the actual images, so the ALT is a good place to clue them in. I don't know how your CMS is doing things, but generally keywords in the ALT attribute are OK as long as you don't overdo it and get spammy. The same keyword on every image would NOT be a good quality sign to search engines. If there's text in the image, use the same text for the ALT.

Links: If you link to your sites from your own 2000 parked domains, the search engines are more likely to call that a link farm and completely ignore them. Your existing rankings could suffer too.

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carob

No you just need to change the text in the Alt tag. I don't know whether you'll access that directly or via a CMS, but you should be able to have an individual value for each image and that is better for SEO.
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The tags are independent of the image - no need to delete and reload the image.

You can have alt tags and title tags. The alt tags also let vision-impaired people know what's on the page.

wheresweb

The Title tag is used to display text when you mouse over the image. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with SEO or not though.

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carob

Hi the alt tag is way more important since it tells search engines what the image is about, but some SEO advice does say to use title as well to hit your keywords. As usual you do not want to overdo keywords or stuff a lot of unrelated text into the title tags. You can live without title tags buy you have nothing to lose by using them carefully.

wheresweb

If I'm correct, which I may not be, the title tag is for the user not the search engines. According to web standards from w3schools.com, the alt tag is required but the title tag is optional.

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amywilson

Name your images in a way that describes what they are. Don't get carried away though. If it's a picture of a purple widget, name it purple-widget.jpg, rather than leaving it whatever your camera or photo editing software wants to name it.

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