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| How to Use Images,Graphics and Thumbnails to Promote Your Site | | 2006-11-11 20:59:14 | | By Titus Hoskins (c) 2006 Images, graphics and thumbnails play an important role in the overall look and feel of your website. They can greatly improve the usefulness of your site; making it more user-friendly and easier to navigate. More importantly, the visual images on your site can be optimized to improve your search engine rankings.Despite their importance, many webmasters ignore images or graphics when it comes to optimizing their web pages. Don't make the same mistake.There are some simple rules to follow when using SEO with your onsite graphics. Here are a few tips:First, you must know exactly what an 'Alt Image Tag' is in order to optimize for the search engines. You must also realize search engine robots can't see your images, they can only read text - the text in your Alt Image Tags. So you have to construct your Alt Image Tags with this factor in mind and feed these robots with your popular keywords. Search engine robots usually spider popular sites every day or so.What is an Alt Image Tag?Every image, graphic or thumbnail on your site will have html code similar to this:src http://mail.yahoo.com/config/login?/"http://www.YourDom.com/imgs/logo.jpg Alt=YourKeyword= Image width hghtYour Alt Image Tag will be:alt=Your Keyword ImageAlways include an Alt Image Tag description for all your images, graphics and thumbnails. This includes all headers, background images and even thumbnails of other sites, if you use them. Keep your descriptions of the images short and related to the image itself. It would be a good idea to end each description with the word photo, image or graphic.Many marketers like to include their main keyword or keyword phrase they are targeting in the Alt Image Tag. They also place this keyword phrase in the text on their page, in the title tag, meta description and many alert marketers also place their keyword phrase in the URL of that page. You should also include your keyword phrase in the last 25 words on the same page.Feed the spi... | | By: Online Marketing 4 Dummies | | |
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