Img Alt is the alternative text to browsers that do not see the image.
Browsers like "Lynx", browsers used by the blind etc.
This is what Google gas to say about img alt:
Images: Use the alt attribute to provide descriptive text.
In addition, we recommend using a human-readable caption and descriptive text around the image.
Firefox has made huge inroads in Europe over the past year, to the point where Internet Explorer is in danger of losing its market share lead in some countries. According to French web metrics firm XiTiMonitor, Firefox's overall market share in the 32 European countries it measures has grown to 27.8 percent, up from just over 20 percent in January 2006.
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The world is moving forward. Cell phones are browsing the internet and are creating new challenges in web site building.
While most web companies build web sites for IE, the front-line web companies build web site for many more browsers:
This spam technique is very simple to apply, and very simple to catch by search engines.
A hidden text is simply a piece of text robots could read, but is not visible to the web surfer.
Hidden text could be a pixel by pixel paragraph.
Hidden text could be keywords written in the same color as the background.
Matt Cutts is currently the head of Google's Webspam team: Nearly hidden text
This spam technique is very simple to apply, and very simple to catch by search engines.
The web page has a paragraph full of the keywords between <noscript> and </noscript>.
Example: (You must do view source to see the noscript)
Spam technique - Noscript
I wrote about Pay per click (PPC) and about "stealing eyeballs" through Google ads.
I was asked how to do it with Google ads.
The instructions are here:
Google site-targeted campaign
Happy stealing...
To see if Google bot picked up your web site, you need to search for:
site:nameofsite.com
The results page would look like this:
Google - Dogs World
Yahoo! - Dogs World
These search results show you which pages on your web site are "known" to the search engine.
