Robin,
since you are using background images, I assume that the images are
meaningless, and only for decoration reasons.
Therefore you do not need alt attributes there. It is true that alt
attributes are a little piece of the search engines algorithms,
which can boost a bit your rankings, but they are not there for stuffing
with keywords.
And for the minimal boosting, it is not worth to spoil your clean code.
That is a fact!
Work on more important on-site and off-site factors for achieving higher
rankings.
The golden rule in SEO is: Optimize for engines, with humans in mind!
Best,
John
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Robin @ Xplore.net wrote:
Happy New Year Group,
Could someone please clarify for me the best way to markup an image in
a template, take a header image for example. In the interest of
keeping structure from content I have recently been using background
images wherever possible to keep my markup as clean as possible but I
have been reading an article on the importance of the alt text for SEO.
Is there a definitive answer?
I want the best search engine rankings but I also want clean markup.
**Robin **
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