Re: IMG attribute ALT a home for keywords?

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Re: IMG attribute ALT a home for keywords?

From Kevin Hesson on 03 April '98
adding to IMG attribute ALT a home for keywords? posted by Wayne Mumford

>Anyone have an idea whether or not search engines consider
>Descriptions entered in the ALT attribute as Keywords?

Wayne, these are the SEs that read your alt image tags: Lycos, Webcrawler, Altavista, and HotBot. Lycos will probably use this tag to summarize your site in it's results if you use it very early in the page.

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Reply:	>>Anyone have an idea whether or not search engines consider >>Descriptions entered in the ALT attribute as Keywords? >Wayne, these are the SEs that read your alt image tags: Lycos, Webcrawler, Altavista, and HotBot. Lycos will probably use this tag to summarize your site in it's results if you use it very early in the page.