alt tags and google
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 1:14 pm
I posted this over at the zoo but I'm guessing I get much better answers here. (hoping jdough will chime in)
Regarding alt tags on images in WP and how google crawls and checks KW density.
Recently I've decided to use robogallery to simplify uploading images to some babeblog type sites that are built on WP. robogallery/uugallery et al have a way to specify automatic alt tags for each image so that alt tags might appear as 'model name 1' 'model name 2' etc etc. while this seems a nice feature, I have to wonder about google seeing it as KW spam.
When I do this manually (add alt tags to images) I will typically title a few after the model, a few about the boobs, and a few about something else relative to the pic. I admit, some alt tags I leave blank.
This method seems to work 'ok'
Normally, I have a domain with my KW in it - my post title has my KW in it - I use the KW once in the first sentence of the blog post and well as about 2/3 of the way thru the post. If I have a 100-200 word post - I figure this is hitting my KW density at about 3-5% which seems pretty 'right' and 'natural'
If I have say 10 pics in a post and add 10 alt tags with nearly the same KW - wont this throw my density WAY off?
Or does google not calculate these alt tags into the density? What about title tags and filenames?
Thanks for any input you guys can give on this!!
Regarding alt tags on images in WP and how google crawls and checks KW density.
Recently I've decided to use robogallery to simplify uploading images to some babeblog type sites that are built on WP. robogallery/uugallery et al have a way to specify automatic alt tags for each image so that alt tags might appear as 'model name 1' 'model name 2' etc etc. while this seems a nice feature, I have to wonder about google seeing it as KW spam.
When I do this manually (add alt tags to images) I will typically title a few after the model, a few about the boobs, and a few about something else relative to the pic. I admit, some alt tags I leave blank.
This method seems to work 'ok'
Normally, I have a domain with my KW in it - my post title has my KW in it - I use the KW once in the first sentence of the blog post and well as about 2/3 of the way thru the post. If I have a 100-200 word post - I figure this is hitting my KW density at about 3-5% which seems pretty 'right' and 'natural'
If I have say 10 pics in a post and add 10 alt tags with nearly the same KW - wont this throw my density WAY off?
Or does google not calculate these alt tags into the density? What about title tags and filenames?
Thanks for any input you guys can give on this!!