| Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | andrewwintl | 7/14/11 4:20 PM | I have read the FAQs and checked for similar issues: YES Description (including timeline of any changes made): I am searching for results to find out the value of text links versus image links with alt text. Do any of you have testing results that |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | RainboRick | 7/14/11 5:22 PM | Image links pass just as much PageRank as text links, but according to people I respect who tested for it, the anchor text value of the 'alt' attribute isn't quite as strong as plain text would have been. I don't know what happens when you mix image |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | 奥宁 | 7/15/11 12:37 AM | It really is all relative. You should pick what is most relevant for the user, because honestly different pages and sites would have different results. if your heavy on pics and that drives your content, images would be good, otherwise, might not b |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | Chris64 | 7/25/11 5:29 AM | Not attempting to argue (to much) with a level 12 and a top contributor, but I notice that you are both advising him to 'back off on the (extreme) SEO' as Google knows all and we should write for the human visitors, etc. But isn't the whole point of |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | 奥宁 | 7/25/11 7:07 AM | I think its a case by case situation like i said, there isn't a "right answer" perse my theory is build for the user then optimize for the SE SEO is more build for the SE then make it user friendly. thats why i advice picking whats best then making |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | cristina | 7/25/11 7:23 AM | I think that RainboRick and Andy are right, do the links in the way that is best for the people visiting your site. If the content of the page is such that you feel the need to link twice, by image and by text, do so in a logical and helpful way, wit |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | cristina | 7/25/11 7:35 AM | Another thing about links is the accessibility aspect. Use the title attribute of images and of text links to describe the content of the image and of the page linked to. And do not link to different pages with the same anchor text. |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | boltsabre | 7/25/11 7:59 AM | To the best of my knowledge, when google indexes a page it will take the first link to another page (if there are multiple links to same page), and discount all other versions of links. So that means that if you an image link with alt="nike shoes" th |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | Chris64 | 7/26/11 3:12 AM | Andy, thank you for the reference. It is indeed a good example of the described situation. As a sidenote: The ESPN site, which doesn't link the images, but only the text, does rank higher on the more important keyword 'new jersey devils' (and also ra |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | cristina | 7/26/11 4:17 AM | About two links, image and text, keep in mind that there is an accessibility requirement to separate links, have some text between links, do not have two links immediately one after another, screen readers might have problems with that. |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | Drazen Dodig | 11/2/11 4:40 PM | The answer posted by boltsabre - which is marked as the best answer - is wrong. Boltsabre said "when google indexes a page it will take the first link to another page (if there are multiple links to same page), and discount all other versions of link |
| Re: Image Links Vs. Text Links, Questions About PR & Anchor Text Value | 奥宁 | 11/2/11 7:51 PM | hmmm, odd to revive this old thread. yes, he was wrong about that part, but that wasn't the original question at all. the asker thought his explination of image verses text was well thought out |