Google cant find my site

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:47:13 +0100, Els <els.aNOSPAM (AT) tiscali (DOT) nl> wrote:

Or just remove alt="" at all. You will save on bandtwidth

Removing alt="" results in the word 'image' for every single
spacer.gif or decorative image in text only browsers. There is a
reason the alt attribute is mandatory according to the specs ;-)

The word 'image' will be not indexed at this moment, so it will
not hurt your SEO. It will not help either, but if the alt will
contain honest "spacer" it will have similar effect. I mean - zero.

As for other remarks (about SEO value and blind users) - they are
OK as long as we are talking about the images having some value in
terms of information or navigation. As long as the picture is only
a spacer it doesn't matter IMHO. Or rather my opinion is - don't
use images as spacers, use css to format page without using any
additional elements like spacers or tables. Then your alt attribute
can contain something meaningfull, not a garbage.

You can always use spacers to add alt="your keyword", but that's
out of scope of whitehat SEO

Best,
Borek
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