I must admit that I thought that the filename was fairly key :-)
But thanks for the link. I clearly had not understood that much.
However, you need the search 'bots to find your site as well, so the
meta tags must be equally important to generate information about the
nature of your site.
I see that your site is fully populated with content, description and
keywords, Chris, but Bob needs to put a fair amount more to match that.
Chris
On 5 Jun 2009, at 17:05, Chris Crawford wrote:
> The alt tags are used by search engines for images. How else do you
> think
> Google Image Search finds them? The alt tag helps people who cannot
> see and
> it tellss the search engine what the picture depicts. The computerized
> 'spider' that search engines use cannot see a image, all it sees is
> code
> telling that an image is there, what its filename is and how big it
> is.
> Nothing more. The alt tag lets the search spider 'see' the photo.
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