Posts Tagged ‘HTML TITLE element’

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. But, what about the User?

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is not about optimising for these Google bots or XYZ search engine but more about optimising for humans, for 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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