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sunster13
Aug 19th 2007, 1:21 pm
Is it any worse to have an image or banner linking to my site rather than having a link? Will this still count towards my PR, backlinks etc.?


Thanks
emptymirror
Aug 19th 2007, 1:25 pm
It's not worse, no. An image link is still a link and certainly counts toward PR & backlinks just the same as a text link would.

Make sure there's alt text included. Since there's no link text in an image link, alt text is a useful alternative. For example:

<a href="http://www.example.com"><img src="/pathtoyourimage/image.jpg" alt="put what you'd usually use as link text here"></a>

cheers ~
Denise
rehash
Aug 19th 2007, 3:06 pm
even if you use the alt tag, for the serps, a text link with more text around it should be better

but for PR/backlinks there should be no dif
trichnosis
Aug 19th 2007, 6:18 pm
it's not bad.

links with images and links with anchor text will be counted as backlinks
Pedro Monteiro
Aug 19th 2007, 6:24 pm
even if you use the alt tag, for the serps, a text link with more text around it should be better

but for PR/backlinks there should be no dif

Exactly, the only difference is in the relevance weight of the link.

And anchor text of a textlink tends to get more relevance "points" then the ALT text of an image link.