Question about GOOGLE...

brian-be · Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 38

In another forum, they said 'for your pictures/sales to be picked up by GOOGLE/FROOGLE you should use the form':
<a href="http://img.inkfrog.com/pix/KeepingBusy/004.jpg" alt="004">
(that way, anyone searching for 004 would find it on GOOGLE/FROOGLE)

I'm trying to incorporate this method into a template as:

<a href="{imageurl1}" alt="image1NAME">
<img src="{thumburl1_140}" hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0"></a>

but when I try to validate it, it says "The 'alt' attribute is not valid for the 'a' element."

Even though it is "not valid", the template still seems to work locally on my computer.
So, two questions:
1) Will the template still work with a "not valid" element in it?
and
2) Will GOOGLE/FROOGLE really pick it up, and if so, how long before it does?

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:04 pm

You might be thinking of title instead. Title is an attribute for the <a> tag.

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thenamesdave · Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Essex

alt is a required attribute for XHTML images though, and is picked up by Google as far as I'm aware.

Corey Bryant · Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:02 am

the alt attribute is actually require for HTML - just people never did use it

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