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Re: Thoughts on SEO


  • From: Pete  
  • Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 11:34:56 -0400

Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
I too thought of the 'title' attribute in this context (the purpose of 'alt' is something else). Can't help thinking that if it's true that the search engines don't mind about 'title', they *should* do so ;-) since it's a natural way to provide more verbose info about the nature of a link: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.1.4

http://www.seocentral.com/tutorials/alt-title-attributes.html

The above gives some rather good reasons why ringmasters should use the 'title' attribute, especially when designing their navpanel (where space is rather limited as for example as you did for your ring's navpanel...

There is also the 'summary' attribute for the table tag:
"'summary' is for tables what 'alt' is for images"
SEO tutorials say summary should be used "in the main table tag", and seeing that most navpanels are usually a bunch of nested tables, this might be a good idea for ringmasters who could enter here a summary/description of their ring...

Pete


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