examples of keyword stuffing alt and title attributes
For a presentation at next week's "fronteers" conference, I'd like some examples of sites that stuff keywords into alt and title attributes if anyone has any, pleasey weasey.www.brucelawson.co.uk
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Not many rouge sites bother with alt and title attributes as they have no SEO benefits. However the title tag seems to get the brunt of keywords and I am often guilty of giving longer than required.Johan De Silva / Portfolio
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yep, title (and heading) tags are pretty powerful (second only to links) re SEO, and most spammers and 'most SEO aware' folk seem to know this by now.
Have fallen foul too
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Bit late to the party, but Accessify Forum just got spammed by a site with keyword stuffing in <acronym title>:
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| <acronym title="Jobs at Alma Forex">Jobs at Alma Forex</acronym> |
The logo link demonstrates keyword stuffing in alt:
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| <a href="http://www.almaforex.com"><img src="/img/logo.gif" width=187 height=55 alt="Forex. Forex Broker. Currency Trading. Online Trading. Mini Forex. Alma Forex."></a> |
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| <a href="http://www.almaforex.com"><img src="/img/logo.gif" width="187" height="55" alt="Home Page"></a> |
The ever-popular keyword spamming in <title>:
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| Jobs at Alma Forex | Forex. Trading. Forex Broker - Alma Forex |
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| Jobs at Alma Forex Broker |
Uses <h3> for the bullet points on the right because they contain SEO-tastic keywords. Similarly bogus use of <strong>. And so on. And so on.
Always worth repeating: there are lies, damn lies and SEO.
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I thought readers would be interested in an application called Alt&Title that applies missing alt and title attributes to applicable HTML tags. I have used it on hundreds of web pages and it has saved me many hours of work.
Give it a go. I hope you find it as useful as I have!
Here is the web page promoting it...
http://www.flysoftware.com/products/altandtitle/overview.asp
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Thanks for the link. However, I'm not convinced by this software.
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| if an img tag already contained alt=”Buy Now!”, Alt&Title would automatically add title=”Buy Now!” to the same tag. Similarly, if title="Download Now!" was present, alt="Download Now!" would be added. |
There's a fundamental flaw with this approach, in that alt and title attributes (for images) fulfil different purposes and are not necessarily the same.
James Coltham - Local gov web manager by day, web and accessibility blogger at lunchtime, freelancer by night. Tweets at @prettysimple.
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James,
I take your point in that alt and title attributes fulfill different purposes, but I will explain why I found Alt&Title useful...
Over the years I had (wrongly) only applied alt attributes to my img tags (blame Dreamweaver for only providing an alt attribute field in its GUI - I'm not a coder!). This meant I had hundreds of Web pages that contained images without a title attribute - only an alt attribute. This meant that tooltips were not being displayed in IE8 and Firefox (and rightly so)!
It would have taken me many hours to manually add a title attribute to each relevant image. However, I downloaded Alt&Title and it did the job for me - albeit using the same alt attribute text for a newly created title attribute.
In my opinion having the same alt and title attribute text for an applicable image is better than only having alt attribute text.
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| Ben Millard wrote: | ||||||||||
Bit late to the party, but Accessify Forum just got spammed by a site with keyword stuffing in <acronym title>:
The logo link demonstrates keyword stuffing in alt:
The ever-popular keyword spamming in <title>:
Uses <h3> for the bullet points on the right because they contain SEO-tastic keywords. Similarly bogus use of <strong>. And so on. And so on. Always worth repeating: there are lies, damn lies and SEO. |
Thank you Ben that was pretty useful information for a beginner like me
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| crymealake wrote: |
| James,
I take your point in that alt and title attributes fulfill different purposes, but I will explain why I found Alt&Title useful... Over the years I had (wrongly) only applied alt attributes to my img tags (blame Dreamweaver for only providing an alt attribute field in its GUI - I'm not a coder!). This meant I had hundreds of Web pages that contained images without a title attribute - only an alt attribute. This meant that tooltips were not being displayed in IE8 and Firefox (and rightly so)! It would have taken me many hours to manually add a title attribute to each relevant image. However, I downloaded Alt&Title and it did the job for me - albeit using the same alt attribute text for a newly created title attribute. In my opinion having the same alt and title attribute text for an applicable image is better than only having alt attribute text. |
Title tags in images are pretty much worthless.
They are never displayed in mobile browsers, and are only available in graphical browsers to users who use a mouse.
The alt tag should contain a description of the image. Once that is done, putting anything in a title tag is pointless. It does not increase accessibility if you have a proper alt tag.
What you can do is use a figure node around your image and then use figcaption to add a descriptive caption for the image that will be shown by all browsers regardless of whether a mouse is used or not, regardless of whether it is a desktop browser or a mobile browser.
If I'm not mistaken, W3C no longer requires an alt tag IF your image is in a figure node with a figcaption - but I would still use an alt tag as description of image is usually different than a caption.
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| DOMBlogger wrote: |
| They are never displayed in mobile browsers, and are only available in graphical browsers to users who use a mouse. |
Indeed, it is the choice of the UA whether they provide a UI to access the content of the title attribute. A touchscreen phone could provide it if you press and hold your finger over the image, for example.
Keyboard browsing could allow focus to reach elements which have supplemental information and reveal that information after a timer expires. Just as with hovering the mouse over an element.
With that said, a visible caption is clearly an easier and more immediate way to provide supplemental information about an image. We are agreed on that!
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I think whilst the title tag is really important obviously, the rest of the stuff since panda is no longer quite as important - the real thing driving everything in SEO at the moment is link building from other sites and although it is easier than having to do 100 little things it can be a pain after a while but yeh, that's the real cruncher!An excellent online magazine with journalistic opportunities for anyone interested and also great stuff to read! http://www.moonproject.co.uk
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