Can you rank in Google with image alt text?
By Matt McGee on Aug 31, 2006 in Google, SEO
Yes, you can.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=goofy+SEO+photographer
That phrase is the alt text I used in this post from one week ago. Some folks say Google ignores image alt text. Some say Google ignores it unless it’s a linked image. Ignore ‘em. (Google does ignore the image “title” attribute: I used “title=daslkdj tksbnfdfkde” on that image, and that phrase comes up empty.)
For the record, both Yahoo and MSN have that post indexed, but both are ignoring the alt text.
2 Comment(s)
By oatmeal on Sep 1, 2006 | Reply
Interesting stuff, this could be useful when targeting misspelled words.
By Matt McGee on Sep 1, 2006 | Reply