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Default Re: hi my first attempt - 08/10/2007, 11:13 AM

As explained in the thread you started under "General Chat", http://forum.xilo.net/general-chat/1...advertise.html and here... you have effectively created an "invisible" site, as far as the search engines go !

That is because search-engines basically cant "see" or index images on webpages... unless they have text "attached" to them via what is called an Alt-tag.

So the old saying "a picture speaks a thousand words", for search-engines translates to ... "a picture speaks zero words" .

Bit of Background Explanation
Basically the way search-engines "find" your site is by using the TEXT in it, meaning the words/phrases on your page's and analysing them. They create an "index" of words and phrases from your site... sort of like a phone-directory, but not just indexed alphabetically... but in all kinds of different ways.

So when someone types in some "keywords" in the Google search-box for example. The search-engine then takes these and tries to "match" them to the huge "index" of words/phrases they have stored on their HUGE database, for all the multitude of websites!

They do this to try and deliver to the "searcher" the websites, that in their view, contain words/phrases that closest "match" the words/terms that were originally typed in the search-box.

I hope this is making sense and explaining to you how important it is to include as much relevant and useful "visible" text... on your webpages. Images are of course important as well, but putting the important text into images... as you have done, is a definite no-no .

Last edited by jnovak; 08/10/2007 at 11:31 AM.
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