HR Tags & Alt Tags

HR Tags & Alt Tags - Does these affect SEO?

 

I'm not sure about the HR, but with alt yes, it does in some way. By the way, alt is an attribute, not a tag.

 

ALT Attribute | alt Property
Sets or retrieves a text alternative to the graphic .

The property is read/write. The property has no default value.

Expressions can be used in place of the preceding value(s), as of Microsoft® Internet Explorer 5. For more information, see About Dynamic Properties .

Remarks

The text is used to replace the graphic for text-only browsers and to display in the window before the graphic has loaded. The text also acts as a ToolTip if the TITLE attribute is not set when the user hovers the mouse over the graphic.

Alternate text should be provided whenever the graphic is not rendered. Alternate text is mandatory for Level 0 documents.

 

Sorry I was wrong, it's an attribute.

 

Well I dont think that affects the rankings any longer the things which have a big impact on your rankings are Title tag and Link Popularity.

 

ALT will have very little bearing on SEO but atleast some. HR doesn't have anything to do with SEO

 

alt taq is use for designing and hr teg is horizentel teg is also use for designing issues ...........
no use in seo because seo is not related to designing issues ....!!!

Thanks & Regards

 

deepraj12, as others have said, alt="" is an attribute (of the IMG element), not a tag. Its purpose is not for designing as you have wrongly claimed, but instead to deliver the text equivilent of the image to those who cannot see them.

http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/altAttribute

 

alt is the main thing which express an image to search engine. So it is really important for seo.

 

It doens't express the image to search engines. It tells those users who cannot see the image (and this does include search engines, but it is not the primary target group) what the image is about.

But yes, while it can benefit the search engines, it's primarily an accessibility tool, not an SEO tool.

 

when i saw the result of google bot i see they took texts in alt attb. If i am not wrong then every seo session i found text in alt attb is important. But any way i am not too much learned.

 

Oh, it'll index the text all right. That's what it does. I'm just saying that the primary purpose of the attribute is to ensure the accessibility of the site/page in question, not to improve the site's search engine ranking placement through an effective SEO campaign (that's just icing on the cake).

 

Alt definitely helps in improving the optimisation value, but combined with other seo tactics it can be the deciding factor

 

I've found out that image replacement using CSS is very useful since its not really changing the "content" and it shows text for "search engines" and "images" for users and even if "human editor" reviews it he/she will find that both have the same meaning. Even Matt Cutts said that he approves the use of Text-Image Replacement when its used with the "white hat" intent.

Alt is good to be use if you don't know how to use text-image replacement, but has less value than the real text. HR is just horizontal line and has nothing to do with SEO.

Cheers,

Venetsian.

 

Replacing images with text by CSS will certainly not harm you, if the text you use is actually related to the image (or rather, it is not keyword stuffing) but in that case it loses the usability for people that have severe visual impairments.

But as far as it regards search engine, they will tolerate that (to a certain point).

 

Well, yes. If you try to replace a whole paragraph with image it most definitely means that you're doing something off the chart and you can get penalized. The typical image replacement works only with 2-3 words at most.

Venetsian.