Posts Tagged ‘HTML Alternate text’

Audience Based Optimisation – The better way to SEO

Monday, May 11th, 2009

You may have already heard or read on numerous blogs and online portals the various methods to increase ranking on search results. Most of these articles, if not all, focus on SEO and optimising pages or content for search engine spiders. While some of these do a good job on touching various aspects of SEO, they fail to address a key element – the User.

While optimising for these Search Engine Spiders or Web Crawlers or Google bots makes sense in the marketing world, the real ROI is driven by your users – your target audience. Here is what I call, Audience Based Optimisation (ABO), comes in.
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(X)HTML alt vs title attributes Vs the TITLE tag

Monday, September 8th, 2008

alt” attributes are NOT “alt” tags.

Phew! now that it’s out of the way lets proceed.

During our team meetings, I often hear developers and designers throw in the term “alt ” tags when referring to the “alt” attribute. A few years ago, I too, used to refer to the “alt” attribute as an “alt” tag. Infact, even the Human Factors International website incorrectly refers to these attributes as tags, well, they also incorrectly refer to the “longdesc” attribute as tags.
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