Creating a blank slate for page optimization

dsvideo · 12-17-2003, 06:37 AM

Hi,

I am toying with an idea of creating a "blank slate" for our web pages. I would like to make the menus and anything unimportant into images so that none of that text is counted toward our page optimization. With this "blank slate" I can then insert only text that I have optimized for that page. This would result in a page where the only text is our optimized text and each image could have a keyword-rich alt text.

It seems to load fast enough and we're not too worried about link relevance, especially with the OOP going on. Can anyone think of any other problems with this? Thanks.

I, Brian · 12-17-2003, 06:48 AM

Are you talking abuot creating a page where all the text excepting your target text is graphics based??

If so I figure you are not aiming for human users?? That ould be the main problem - especially on modem. The other is that your link relevance should be the main concern, AFAIK.

Sorry - I'm not exactly sure what you're asking specifically asking.

dsvideo · 12-17-2003, 07:50 AM

Yes, I am saying everything would be graphic execpt for the main body text which will be optimized for the keywords.

We're not worried about speed, and we are not worried about link relevance because we will deal with that elsewhere.

The idea is to have as little on the page as possible besides our optimized body text. Are there any other problems inherent with doing this?

Johan007 · 12-17-2003, 08:01 AM

pfff if you want to

Just do a page with these words in and no need the other text.

....and then do a java script redirect to your proper page for users.

OR uses server side programming to detect browser id and give Google a seperate page.

IMO both these is spamming

dsvideo · 12-17-2003, 08:45 AM

I don't understand. What do your suggestions have to do with what I mentioned? And if both your suggestions are methods for spamming, why would you mention them? I am not interested in spamming. Are you saying that what I have suggested is in some way spamming?

Thanks.

Johan007 · 12-17-2003, 09:17 AM

My suggestions was instead of using text as images you show the key words only to SE.. you can have the images as text if you want too it makes no deference cos SE will not see and users wont cos the user is redirected to a fast loading page full of HTML text

spamming yes, but that is my opinion and is not be the opinion of any particular SE.

pointless yes but I thought I would reply to this tread cos I am bored.

I, Brian · 12-17-2003, 02:06 PM

I personally tend to regard menus as important - it's still link building, and keyword ricj if you use it right. Of course, you can still utilise the alt tags of a graphical menu - John Scott here reports good results using that.

But as for the rest - really, what is there to use graphics for elsewhere in the body?? If you're worried about extraneous information interfering with your content text, then simply remove that extraneous information, yes??