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Re: Image tag, alt attribute, what is the 'safe' character limit? From Bob Williams at Maritime Global Net on 20 June '00 replying to Re: Image tag, alt attribute, what is the 'safe' character limit? posted by Brian >I personally would treat alt tags just like meta tags minus the >comma............ > >Brian > >>Is there a search engine 'safe' rule of thumb on the number of characters used in image alts? Next question... I know that there are TITLE and NAME attributes associated with Hyperlink TAGS ( <a_href etc ), and is it ok / appropriate / worthwhile to also populate these attributes with search optimized keyword terms, as is done with the ALT attributes? Do the search engines recognize them? I would wonder if they do or consider them 'JUNK' tag attributes. Thoughts? Regards all, Bob Williams Bristol RI, USA

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>>I personally would treat alt tags just like meta tags minus the >>comma............ >> >>Brian >> >>>Is there a search engine 'safe' rule of thumb on the number of characters used in image alts? > >Next question... I know that there are TITLE and NAME attributes associated with Hyperlink TAGS ( <a_href etc ), and is it ok / appropriate / worthwhile to also populate these attributes with search optimized keyword terms, as is done with the ALT attributes? > >Do the search engines recognize them? I would wonder if they do or consider them 'JUNK' tag attributes. Thoughts? > >Regards all, > >Bob Williams >Bristol RI, USA