I have a questions to web developers and people with seo knowledge?

by **wanna3941** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:43 am

I plan to use a photoshop designed animation on with my website rotating photos of my best selling products. The question is if I have alt text for each image will the search engines read each alt text on all the pictures in the animation (about 6 images) or does the animation count as one image and only one alt text is read. Trying to increase my keyword count for ranking.

by **melindastoybox** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:44 am

It will depend on how your rotating the images. If your using flash or some type of movie file, it will be seen by web crawlers as one image/movie. If your using a java script to rotate them (which is what i recommend) it will be seen as individual images and will pick up each of their descriptions.

Here are a few examples of what can be done with javascript - http://websitedesignerdirect.com/ChairParts/ - It's a demo site for a client of mine.

If you need the scripts to do this, they can be found here - www.dynamicdrive.com

by **priyankameenakotaBESEO** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:46 am

I agree with the above respondant. If you use javascript, you will be able to associate ALT text for each individual image; with flash, you an only optimize the file itself, although search engines have now become more advanced for indexing flash.

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