Interesting question

Dear friends,

I am making a web on a city. I want it to be at the ist page of google so I want to make sure about a few things.

1) e.g. if i write in its contents that Paris is the "capital" of "France". Then is it a good idea if I make "capital" and "France" as a link which means if a user while reading this line clicks on France then a popup appears showing what is France. Does this type of links help in making a good position for web?

2) Is it a good idea to place pictures with names? e.g. any picture with name "paris park.jpg" ...if yes.... then which one is a good format? paris park.jpg or paris-park.jpg or parispark.jpg or paris_park.jpg.

 

I need some replies please......

 

It depends.
Generally speaking, having a hard-coded html a href that has the keyphrase within the linktext may influence search results on a given engine.

I am not sure how this 'link' is setup. If it is a javascript function, probably not. If this is another content page on your site, probably it will help. But make sure you factor in that the target popup page, if html page, will probably get indexed, and people will land on it directly, so design the page accordingly.

I hope that answers it. Again, the traditional, hard coded (not javascript written) a href link that goes to another document should affect listings in the search engine. A javascript onclick function that opens a page dynamically that is not a filename on the website itself, should not have an effect.

Regarding images.......because people actually search on images, you may get some traffic from that alone in google images, etc. As for it being a 'weighted' key area for onpage optimization, if it is, it is very very low.

Never use spaces in your naming convention.
paris park.jpg is NOT recommended. Nothing in your website URL and filename structure should have spaces, for maximum compatability.

paris_park.jpg well, I dont recommend it cause it is not universally read as a phrase. They will pick up 'paris' and they will pick up 'park', but they will not pick up 'paris park' with your underscore pattern.

In short, if you are going to name your images, in order to get potential traffic from image searches and possibly some miniscule effect on the onpage optimization, use dashes:

paris-park.jpg

 

It could help, but it's going to depend on a few things. As for your second question, the second or third would work, but I'd go with the second for usability reasons.

 

Thanks for the replies guys.....

I wanted to ask another thing that putting more and more images in your page makes it good or worse? like I have heard if a page has more links in it then it is good because search engine likes the links.....
Are the images added in your webpage considered as links or not??

 

No. In order for it to be a link it has to use the anchor element with a proper href="" attribute (and a URL as the attribute value). The anchor element CAN contain images however, but they won't be "worth" as much as plain text.

 

ahan, so u mean to say adding images in ur page is just increasing the value of web if a user searches for images on google and nothing else....

Another question..... if suppose I say .... Germany is neighbouring country of France ...... and make Germany as a link which opens up a small popup showing a small definition of Germany stored in my webspace..... But if e.g. my site is for France then you think adding such type of links which are not that much relevant to france makes the web worthy???? I mean if it helps then I can make many links on difficult words showing their definitions.....
If not, then it will save my time and i will not be spending time on making irrelevant words as links

 

No, what I'm saying is that the alt="" text in an image isn't worth as much as plain text when used in a link.

As for the popup, it'd be best to have the link be a regular link to a page of the map. You can then use JavaScript to force a false return on the click and instead have it open the popup. However, I'd rather use a tooltip that contains the definition and then link to a page that goes into more detail about the topic.

 

dan shulz has it down, convivial. i second his info, in addition to my own.

hard coded html text links will outperform images wrapped in links, and images with alt text and possibly title text can help, but not to the extent of textlinks.

you will still get 'traffic' independent of the image searches with images, just probably not to the extent of linktext (porn may be an exception to this rule, of course).

Dont get too caught up in the 'theme' concept. france and germany are 'related' in that they are countries. only YOU know if adding additional info would harm your visitor experience.

do a survey and ASK them. do split multivariate testing (see my other posts), etc. Your visitors will tell you.

Common sense says if it is related, the info is probably worthwhile, if not distracting.

but there are so many exceptions.

Generally speaking, a clean, noncluttered website with a clear message performs the best with conversion.

You must balance (info, useability, conversion)