Posted on 6th October 2009 by iansheldon in Search Engine Optimisation
I’ve just been posting over on the Iniquitous SEO Forum and the question was raised about the Title attribute in HTML and how it is important to SEO.
Here was my (short) response:
The ALT attribute (and it is an attribute, not a tag) is an alternative text description for images that often displays before the image is loaded (if it’s loaded at all). Or if the image fails to load the ALT text is shwon. ALT is a W3C required element for images and can only be used for image tags because its specific purpose is to describe images.
You can use the TITLE attribute for most page elements, but, unlike the ALT attribute, it isn’t required. As far as SEO goes you should use it to describe links. They’re more versatile than the ALT attribute and many search engine ranking algorithms read the text in TITLE attributes as regular page content.
Here is an example :
<a href=”http://www.online-digital.co.uk” title=”Search Engine Optimisation”>Search Engine Company</a>
If you are looking for a UK SEO Agency, or just want some advice on Search Engine Optimisation why not get in touch?
Posted on 4th October 2009 by iansheldon in Search Engine Optimisation
Twitter has recently increased its traffic around the world from 37.3 million users to 44.5 million.
This growth is impressive, but even more so, if you go back 12 months you’ll find the increase in unique users has been a staggering 1,460% from a user base of just 2.9m.
So why has Twitter grown so fast? With the help of exposure from celebrities no doubt, and with a little bit of forward thinking many businesses have used Twitter to help them grow their customer base and sales. However, the social networking site war goes on and Twitter is still lagging behind the networking giant, Facebook which has around 307m users worldwide.
Getting businesses to buy into Twitter has sometimes been a bit of a challenge due to the stigma surrounding social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, so it might suprise you to know that more adults are using Twitter than teenagers. Companies such as Dell have led the way in showing how powerful social networking can be for your business.
For more help or information on using Twitter as part of your online marketing campaign, or for information on Search Engine Optimisation services contact Online Digital today.
