I was being egotistical and doing a search for my name and at the top of the list is search engine watch. Great job of optimizing for my name I think I will hire you to do the SEO for my website.

The other thing I found was the text of the result from SEW was the alt tag info from my reputation bars... I am a nice guy... obviously they don't know me.

So if anyone wants to weigh in let the discussion start!!!

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Cool, though a little over the top... :D

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Found the reason in the text only version of Googles cache:

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I agree - recent tests I was doing for misspelling research had led me to conclude that Google was now indexing alt text, even though it was not linked. This confirms it even more clearly - it's not only being indexed, it's being treated as content.

Interesting....

Ian

It's amazing the little things that are showing up in both the Google and Yahoo results lately.

I think this goes to show why you don't ignore any on-page elements. May not be worth it today but it may make a difference tomorrow... Maybe the Keyword Meta tag will be next! ;-)

I think this goes to show why you don't ignore any on-page elements. May not be worth it today but it may make a difference tomorrow... Maybe the Keyword Meta tag will be next! ;-)
I have added comment tags, the title tags inside of href tags, my noscripts are loaded... hell I am hunting for everything.

We never stopped, but as always "all things in moderation" and only that which makes sense logically.

We never stopped, but as always "all things in moderation" and only that which makes sense logically.
Screw moderation... my motto is Full Steam Ahead... Fire Away and Stand Back!

Since I'm a moderator, I try to be moderate in my approach to using SEO moderately in order to achieve moderately easy rankings.

Ian :p

I too am #1 at Google and Yahoo for my SEW profile. #3 at MSN...seems like someone has some work to do on MSN! haha

Funny I ran across this link in Yahoo amid the 9600 plus refernces to my screenname...

http://www.tequila-stuff.com/tequila-mexico-jalisco/tequila_557.html

And I don't like tequilla....

Need a little clarification. In my brief experience in the SE world it has
always been my understanding that SEs might give some weight to alt
text if it was linked.

I saw Google using alt text instead of the title for anchor text starting about 6 months ago on my site.

Is that what this thread is about? Using alt text for the anchor text in the SERPS?

Need a little clarification. In my brief experience in the SE world it has
always been my understanding that SEs might give some weight to alt
text if it was linked.

I saw Google using alt text instead of the title for anchor text starting about 6 months ago on my site.

Is that what this thread is about? Using alt text for the anchor text in the SERPS?
No just a funny example of the alt tag being something not to be missed using.

Since I'm a moderator, I try to be moderate in my approach to using SEO moderately in order to achieve moderately easy rankings.

Hey, that was moderatly funny!

;)