[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Killpatrick) writes:
> They said that many search engines rank relevance on proportions of keyword
> to content. For example, if the keyword is "habitrail" and there are 240
> other words on the page, then the ratio would be 1/240 for the relevance of
> the keyword "habitrail". If, however, we convert 230 of the words to a gif
> and keep the word "habitrail" as text, then the ratio would be 1/10
> (including 9 remaining text words) and the site ranking would increase for
> searches on "habitrail".
>
> Any truth to this?
Of course. But this is just a very cumbersome way of presenting search
engines with a different page than 'normal' (= graphical) browsers. It
would be far easier to do this, using a frame/noframes construct or a
browser detection. Most engines consider this to be spamming and will
put you on their blacklist as soon as they find out.
Apart from that, it's a stupid idea anyway. If I have a customer that
displays such disregard for the medium, I'll invest 5 minutes to
educate them, before walking away. Been there, done that.
:*CU#
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