A good spot by Rory in the SEO dept here today, he noticed a weird site link : if you look at the code you can see most pages have images with the alt tag “No alt tag specified”
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auskeo 1443 days ago
http://www.aukseo.com
A differnt page from the same site ranks number 1 for “no alt tag specified”
The Title Tags ain’t much better either, and their Keywords and Description meta tags are empty too. It’s a wonder they rank at all, or is it… Just goes to show how those things don’t matter so much these days as long as you have some good backlinks.
This is a perfect way to persuade clients. On the other hand, I think it improves the website experience for the visually impaired. Thanks for posting.
This Web site has been around since December 2000. They barely have any inbound links and are receiving about 2000 unique visitors per month. Their page title needs to be optimized (only 29 characters) and they have no meta content. This company definitely needs help with SEO. Thanks for the post.
auskeo 1443 days ago
http://www.aukseo.comA differnt page from the same site ranks number 1 for “no alt tag specified”
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=no+alt+tag+specified&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
Interesting to see some underscores in this post url…….
DaveN 1443 days ago
@auskeo http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&hs=rM1&q=Alt+Tags+Important&btnG=Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=
hmmm nice spot
stuartpturner 1443 days ago
http://www.leedsseo.comGood find! We’re always trying to impress the important of populating alt tags to clients – perfect case in point
Dio 1443 days ago
http://diobach.comThe Title Tags ain’t much better either, and their Keywords and Description meta tags are empty too. It’s a wonder they rank at all, or is it… Just goes to show how those things don’t matter so much these days as long as you have some good backlinks.
DaveN 1443 days ago
added : alt is not a tag, it’s an attribute.
Dave
Dudibob 1443 days ago
Bloody hell Dave, you got indexed and ranking quickly, take it that’s to do with the underscores?
Interesting find indeed, does that mean you could change the anchor text on your site that Google uses in Sitelinks to something with a better CTR?
bebopdesigner 1442 days ago
This is a perfect way to persuade clients. On the other hand, I think it improves the website experience for the visually impaired. Thanks for posting.
BluelightSEO 1442 days ago
http://www.bluelightseo.co.ukSites are powered by Red Dot CMS
Appears they have done it for a lot of thier sites, must be something to do with the content management system.
I guess ranking for No Alt Tag Specified is better than ranking for nothing!
Karl 1441 days ago
This Web site has been around since December 2000. They barely have any inbound links and are receiving about 2000 unique visitors per month. Their page title needs to be optimized (only 29 characters) and they have no meta content. This company definitely needs help with SEO. Thanks for the post.
Mo 1441 days ago
http://www.lakesidestory.de*laugher* yeah thats why Alt Text so important
richardbaxterseo 1424 days ago
http://seogadget.co.uk/Nice spot! *Quickly runs off to check all his alt attributes….