Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'html'

If you had to pick between using an Alt attribute in your images versus a Title attribute in your images, I would go with an Alt attribute. The alt attribute is basically "alternate text" for your image, it is used...

Posted on June 25, 2008 7:40 AM

There is an interesting Google Groups thread discussing how Google handles the <base> HTML tag. The base tag specifies a base URL for all the links in a page. But how does Googlebot or Google handle indexing this tag? Google...

Posted on June 11, 2008 8:36 AM

Did you know that there are specific HTML markup tags for abbreviations and acronyms? Did you know that people sometimes use them? A Google Groups thread asks if Google actually uses these tags for indexing purposes? The example given in...

Posted on May 28, 2008 8:22 AM

Maybe so, just a spidering glitch, weird links, or sitemap error? I was searching this morning in Google doing some tests on Google's new Whois feature. When I plugged in a domain what popped up in the first page of...

Posted on April 24, 2008 2:13 PM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if cleaning up code will improve Google Rankings. Can removing bad code get better rankings in the SERPs? Not so much for Google, as one webmaster points out. He has had better success with MSN when...

Posted on September 12, 2007 9:00 AM

That is the question being asked at a Search Engine Watch Forums thread. And to that extent, "How much HTML do I need to know first for SEO?" Most of the replies in the thread are adamant that HTML is...

Posted on October 10, 2006 7:18 AM