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From: Stephanie Sullivan
Date: Jan 21, 2005 9:24AM

We've discussed alt attributes and what they're for and how to make them
accessible. And I try to build my sites that way. Enter the SEO
specialist... "Keywords must be used in alt elements and the first three
alts should have the most important keyword at least three times."

OK... Great.

So we give people garbledegook to listen to in order to get the search
engine spiders to see more value in our site so that it will send more
people over to use our site? Right.

Is there no way to balance those creepy crawly spiders with real human use?


Stephanie Sullivan
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