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Originally Posted by 007c
Hi was wondering...
If you have a site and have allot of spacer images 1 x 1 px (all with same name of course) and you add alt tags with the same keyword to make it as w3c correct as possible. Would a search engine consider it spam / stuffing ? Would it be better to change around the words even tho it's the same 1x1 gif image?
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I have a rather large site & use image alt - Attributes (Not Tags - tags are something completely different).
Ok, heres the deal, either way the image alt attributes will be omitted from any mathematical equation aiding in manipulating a top engine such as Google.
A mathematical algorithm can see that all the images have the same name, by placing a different Keyword or phrase with each Duplicated image, it makes it mathematically obvious that the same image from the same root source can NOT have that many different attributes - Thus leading to the keywords / phrases being omitted & a possible penalty for Image keyword stuffing.
If you use the same keyword alt attribute the mathematical algorithm (Just like duplicated content) will allow 1 to count & omit the rest as duplicates - & there will be NO penalties towards you.
My personal opinion would be to use the same alt attribute keyword or phrase for all the same images & at least get one that counts rather than chance being penalized for image keyword stuffing.
The only other possible solution would be to use a numerical... spacer.gif alt="image name - 1", spacer.gif alt="image name - 2" (The numerical simply represents a different placement for the same image - the image name will be the same for all images) This may aid in more than one alt attribute counting for you & simply calculate in the algorithms mathematical equation as Numerical image positioning / Tracking. ( haven't personally tested this theory long term yet, so try it at your own risk - In theory it makes sense though)
Good luck!
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