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NONE: Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Position your site with the major search engines!
Re: ONLINE-ADS>> Position your site with the major search engines!
Donna Dolezal Zelzer (djz_at_efn.org)
Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:03:54 -0700
At 11:32 AM 10/20/96, Tom Dahm <tdahm_at_iquest.com> wrote these words:> Rob
Frankel wrote:
>
> >Keep in mind that spiders and robots consistently check pages, too, but only
> >the first few lines. So make sure that those lines contain important
> >information, not just puffery.
>
> A very good point! I recently did a site for a local non-profit that made
> heavy use of GIFs for digital typography. The only real text on the home
> page was the tag line at the bottom: "The Huntsville Land Trust. All photos
> used by permission." Guess what appeared in all the search engines?
>
> Is there any way around this, short of redesigning the home page? Do spiders
> typically pick up comment lines?
What about ALT tags? Do spiders look at those?
Totally apart from spiders and robots, if you're using GIFs for digital
typography, you should have ALT tags that repeat all the words in the GIF,
for people who surf with graphics off, who use non-graphic browsers, or who
are visually handicapped.
Donna
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