Comments on: Dynamic Alt-Tags

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 08 May 2009 15:07:56 +0000

Would it matter to the Search engines that these tags changed everytime they visited it? Or would you save them into a db?

Either way would it matter? I am interested to know

By: tiyo

tiyo — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:52:31 +0000

can i applicated in blogger?

By: Cash Volume

Cash Volume — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:11:22 +0000

This is genius! Could be a great way to game Google Image Search as well… I will have to do some testing (back to the lab).

By: Geiger

Geiger — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:17:17 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better to keep the same alt text each time? It looks like the alt text changes on each page load.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:15:43 +0000

This works magic! I’ve done something very similar before for a client, I created a table in his database, which allowed the client to add and remove keywords, which were then randomly assigned to images on his website.

Great results!

By: Marketer

Marketer — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:28:21 +0000

Regarding the constant tags, could you not use web server cache with a really long TTL?

By: Alex Pooley

Alex Pooley — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:16:31 +0000

Good post. I don’t doubt that adding text to images is a must for SEO, but I’d appreciate if you could some day revisit the site and offer some vague indication of the degree of success you found with this technique.

By: Game Cheats

Game Cheats — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:16:39 +0000

Nice! I used a similar method with a real estate site but with less variety.

Maintaining constant tags for a given property was an issue though, we resolved this by using the modulus of the record’s ID to determine the variation index.

By: rustifer

rustifer — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 22:13:45 +0000

Would you use this on a page of thumbnails, and generate new (random) alt tags on each page load? That seems best to me, but how does this play with the seo-izing of the page? Do changing alts/captions screw with anything?