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Image alt Attribute Tips

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

I wasn’t going to link to this video tutorial from Google on the usefulness of image alt attributes, but once I watched it, I thought it was such a great explanation that I added it to the Resources page and am posting about it here.

Alt attributes sometimes become one of the little things that are forgotten when trying to get clients who are new to web publishing understand how to use markup effectively. This video described it much better than I ever have. Coming from a search engine, the advice will likely hold more weight while the clarity of the message is more likely to stick with clients, so I will be pointing people to this explanation from now on.

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Google Search Result Lesson

Monday, November 26th, 2007

Google has a nice video (approximately 8 minutes) of Matt Cutts describing the anatomy of a search result on the Google Webmaster Central Blog. He not only provides information on the terminology and the different sections of a search result, but also where the information comes from, why it appears and how you can influence what is shown for your site in a result list. I think this video is valuable to search engine users as well as site owners to understand how snippets for search results are put together. Go watch the video now.

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