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khushy

khushy

khushy

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we have a website www.aartihome.com - that we have created using Adobe Fireworks and visually it works perfectly.

How can I add text in the foreground that the search engines can see - HTML only please.

Do I need to add the text in some kind of positioning map etc

khushy
 
To start with, trying to hide text on your page for search engines only (ie: keywords) is bad. You can get blocked by the search engines for doing so AFAIK. If you're talking about meta data, I don't think it makes any difference but that's located in the head of your document. You currently have it placemarked on your site with the following..

Code: 
<meta content="Your shops description goes here" name="description" />
<meta content="keyword1, keyword2, etc…" name="keywords" />

Second, your site is VERY badly coded. VERY BAD. You'll get much better placement on search engines by using well structured, semantic code along with actual headers. h1, h2, h3, etc. I didn't see a single one.

Also, none of your images have alt text or titles. How do you expect the engines to know what the image is of? You've done all your navigation in images. What do you think would be better, an image which google can't tell what it is, or an image where google knows the image is of 'news' for example?
 
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my mistake - I meant www.solo2.co.uk - and actually for most of our keywords and phrases - www.solo2.co.uk is number 1-5 on google!

What I want to do is nothing to do with hidden text - I want to convert the text, for example, embeded in the welcome area .jpg, "as an official aveda . . ." etc, into proper text rather than have it embeded in the image.

As a HTML numpty - its really difficult to explain -

khushy
 
Tripnologist said:
To start with, trying to hide text on your page for search engines only (ie: keywords) is bad. You can get blocked by the search engines for doing so AFAIK. If you're talking about meta data, I don't think it makes any difference but that's located in the head of your document. You currently have it placemarked on your site with the following..

Code: 
<meta content="Your shops description goes here" name="description" />
<meta content="keyword1, keyword2, etc…" name="keywords" />

Second, your site is VERY badly coded. VERY BAD. You'll get much better placement on search engines by using well structured, semantic code along with actual headers. h1, h2, h3, etc. I didn't see a single one.

Also, none of your images have alt text or titles. How do you expect the engines to know what the image is of? You've done all your navigation in images. What do you think would be better, an image which google can't tell what it is, or an image where google knows the image is of 'news' for example?
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Please can you give me an example from our actual code of how/where to add the alt text.

Much appreciated . . .

Khushy
 
For a quick fix, I would just remove the text from that image and then absolutely position a div there with the actual text. Certainly not ideal and not what I would do but you're rather limited to what you can do here without doing a lot of work.

...and no offence intended, but if you appear 1-5 on Google for your keywords, you've either picked the wrong keywords or you have competition who are absolutely clueless.
Though I will say that swapping the images for text is a great start. At least then Google can read your content.
 
EXACTLY - read the content is what I am tryingto achieve - as for the competition - definately clueless - LOL

Will work on all the alt tags.

Many thanks

khushy

In adobe fireworks can I add the div bits automatically?
 
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