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I am trying to add alt tags to the members when they are displayed on my home page. I have added on many files, but cannot seem to get the one that the home page uses. I am using the nightlife template.
Can you please let me know. I have tried homepge,tpl and member.tpl. I noticed that there a duplicate tpl files in different locations. What ones should I use?
alt tag ? for members name ?
members profile pictures ?
Alt tag for the member images on my homepage. http://adventuroussinglesonline.com. When I look it seems as though in the code, they are filled in, but if I view source on the page they all show as alt=""
Unabashed Plug: vldKeyword
Fill those nasty empty alt tags with random keywords
Unabashed Plug: vldKeyword
Fill those nasty empty alt tags with random keywords
Great tool. The fact it can create random keywords, means you can be ranked on several keywords for an image.
I saw that, but had a fear that it would be considered spamming from the search engines. What is your take on this.
I am not knocking your programming skill, whoever wrote this plugin, just a question. I would hate to spend soooo much time with all of the other seo work I have done, only to be considered a spammer.
Hello Kirk,
Long gone are the days when people could try and use text the same color as the background and blast the keywords in there, or have rambling blocks of gibberish full of keywords or site description, although some email spammers still do it.
The advantage of the mod is that the keywords are retrieved randomly, so no two page loads are the same, and all those empty tags get used.
I originally did this purely for my own benefit, after seeing all those empty tags.
I was quite gob-smacked, and honestly, when I first did the mod., I was going to keep it for myself.
I have some links on the mod page to references about the question of using alt tags.
Please, have a read, and make your own decision, one way or the other.
As long as your decision is one you make on your own, that's the best you can do, and who knows, you may choose to do something half-way between nothing and the mod. and do something entirely different.
If it helps your site, it can only be good, with or without the mod.
Some sites make no attempt to do anything about alt tags, whilst others use similar methods, but load keywords into text around a user's profile name. I can think of one good example, where it's done quite well and with thought, but do not want to name it publicly, simply because it's not my responsibility to do so, however if you contact me via my site, we can discuss it more, without the sales pitch.
I just loaded google, typed in "strangers for sex", and found myself at #2.
Mindful however, there is also a movie with that exact same title (thank you to whoever made the movie)
I am toying with the idea of making the source of the keywords not just the META tag, but a separate table, where it would be possible to use other words and phrases, to try and piggyback on some of the major sites.
Do any existing users of the mod. have an opinion on this approach? (or anyone else really)
Last edited by fatlizard (2010-11-05 08:33:30)
I saw that, but had a fear that it would be considered spamming from the search engines. What is your take on this.
I am not knocking your programming skill, whoever wrote this plugin, just a question. I would hate to spend soooo much time with all of the other seo work I have done, only to be considered a spammer.
Many of the reports quoted on my site mentions that ALT tags for images in one of the most under-used techniques available. Do the searching yourself, and form your own option, just as I made mine.