Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'text'

Can You Hide Text & Links From Your Users, If Search Engines Won't See?

Here is an unusual scenario for you. You have a web page, the web page is one page of many on your site. This specific page does not allow search engines to crawl them by using a robots.txt file to...

Google Files Patent to Recognize Text in Images

The news this past weekend is that a patent filed by Google in June has surfaced where the search engine giant intends to use more sophisticated search techniques to discern text within images. InformationWeek talks about the patent, known as...

What's Better? Image Based Links or Text Links? What About in H1 Tags?

A very interesting discussion has emerged on WebmasterWorld about link equity from images or text links. What's better? Do image links pass PageRank? Do they imply trust? According to moderator pageoneresults, both links pass equity, but image links are not...


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