Comments on: Q and A: How do we get around the ‘Top Banner’ image alt tag problem? http://www.ask-kalena.com/q-and-a/q-and-a-how-do-we-get-around-the-top-banner-image-alt-tag-problem/ Your Daily Search Engine Advice Column Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:50:25 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Robert K http://www.ask-kalena.com/q-and-a/q-and-a-how-do-we-get-around-the-top-banner-image-alt-tag-problem/comment-page-1/#comment-22487 Robert K Thu, 21 May 2009 08:07:53 +0000 http://www.ask-kalena.com/?p=854#comment-22487 Hey Paul, I agree with Peter on this one - he's spelled it out pretty well. H1's have far more weight than any alt-tag when it comes to SEO. Just a few things though... If you are worried about the alt-tag being the same on each page - unless its a dynamically created page - you are probably inserting the img tag in each page - so why not change it slightly on each? And if you are worried about irrelevant alt-tag for an image which does not display what the alt is suggesting - no worries. As long as the content is matched with it all is good. Otherwise use a background image for your banner and forget about the alt-tag. Focus on the first 100 characters or so being good h1's or h2's that are relevent to the rest of the content on that page. Hope this helps too :) Rob Hey Paul,

I agree with Peter on this one – he’s spelled it out pretty well. H1’s have far more weight than any alt-tag when it comes to SEO.

Just a few things though…

If you are worried about the alt-tag being the same on each page – unless its a dynamically created page – you are probably inserting the img tag in each page – so why not change it slightly on each?

And if you are worried about irrelevant alt-tag for an image which does not display what the alt is suggesting – no worries. As long as the content is matched with it all is good.

Otherwise use a background image for your banner and forget about the alt-tag. Focus on the first 100 characters or so being good h1’s or h2’s that are relevent to the rest of the content on that page.

Hope this helps too :)

Rob

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