Hi guys,

I am wondering if the following can get me penalized for doing too much:

1) adding title tags to all links (around 90 on the index page).
2) i have lots of 1x100% clear images seperating tables and so on. would google frown on me putting alt tags in all of those - throughout the site? the alt tags would of course compliment my targeted keywords

The goal in the above questions would be to increase my desity for the main keywords.

Outside of those questions I am wondering if anyone has every tinkered with random meta-tags? keywords - i was thinking of doing this... and again, it would compliment what the remaining of the site has. any implications from this?

Thanks,
Mac

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No gains in Google for any of that. In fact, there is a solid contention to be made for an over-optimization penalty. For Google, just create good, targeted content and link the everliving hell out of it with a solid inbound anchor text mix. Tune the anchor text and on-page content until you get where you need to be.

MSN will likely ignore it. Sadly, it might boost you in Yahoo...

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Title tags for links?

Have a look at the opposition... open a few and look at their page source, and see if they are using title tags for links. I don't use them because I don't like them myself. Don't forget they appear when you hover over a link, and some people may find them intrusive.... Google use them in a limited way only, eg to explain a term.... and that's good enough for me!

To see what I mean, over your mouse over:

Results 1 - 100 of about 210,000 for blue widgets. (0.86 seconds)

1px by 1px transparent gifs with alt tags?

This trick isn't quite as stone age as some I have seen, but it is well-known to the search engines I am sure. I don't know if it would get you banned or penalised, but I bet they would be unhappy!!

There's the old SEO mantra... "get (relevant) backlinks.." and I'm sure it's not a bad one!

Cheers,
Paz.

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I find title tags to be annoying and don't think that they serve any SEO purpose


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Thanks for the comments.

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any comments on the rotating meta tags? like the keywords? for example, i have a function written to randomly choose certain words from a list. these words of course are choosen to compliment the rest of the page. the reason i am thinking of doing this is because we have two sets of keywords that have high densities with the rest of the page.

any thoughts?

mac

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along the same lines, what's the considered opinion on using an alt="whatever words" for the main logo?

I notice that, for example highrankings.com (oh, am I allowed to mention that site in seo-guy !) doesn't have an alt tag on the main logo but does for the photo of J. Whalen?

Any views?

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Using alt for pictures should be done to help blind people that use a tool that reads the alt= of pictures to tell them what the picture is supposed to be. Some will spam the tags thinking it will help them, but really it's just messing up the blind dudes.

You are allowed to mention and link to other sites, as long as the purpose is to help members. No promotion or spamming, obviously.

I don't freak on alt= of pictures, but they could use something like "Logo of blabla.com" for it. Chances are she tought about it for her picture but not for the logo...

I find title tags in links valuable if you describe the site you are linking to in a short phrase, and think that although it would not help you, it may help the page you are linking to....

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