seo question

[djp1988]

For robots, is this of the same importance for a key word:

<h1>Cats & Dogs</h1>

and:

<h1><img src="imagofacatandadog.jpg" width="300" height="50" alt="Cats & Dogs" /></h1>

You see I have a welcome title, welcome to mysite, and I want to replace it with an image for eye pleasure, but I don't want to sacrafice the importance for a robots point of view

[aszxcv]

http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-seo-your-wordpress-theme/this is about blogging but it should help alot

[boen_robot]

As far as I know, images' alt text has lower priority than plain text for obvious reasons. It will still be indexed of course, so it's not like you're completely blindening Googlebot.For best SEO results, use the plain text h1. But as everyone here will tell you without any disagreement, remember that "content is king" - above all, make sure you publish content that people would link to. The more links (from various sites that is), the better, and to make that happen your content needs to be great.

[djp1988]

I know, but seen as I have put the image in h1 tags does the blind bot effectvly see this as: <h1>thealt text value</h1> ???

[Natechs]

I don't think so... You could test it.

[boen_robot]

I know, but seen as I have put the image in h1 tags does the blind bot effectvly see this as: <h1>thealt text value</h1> ???

I'd imagine there's a math formula of a sort. For example:keyword in h1 - 20 points.keyword in a text node - 10 points.keyword in alt or title attribute - 5 points.(again, this is nothing exclusive... I'm just speculating)So:

<h1>Keyword</h1>

is20 + 10 = 30 points.while

<h1><img alt="Keyword" /></h1>

would be20 + 5 = 25 points.

[djp1988]

sounds logical thanks

[jlhaslip]

Wondering out loud for a minute:What happens if you place the H1 tag using absolute positioning to the top of the header and then place the image over top of that. You would then get the best of both worlds??? Maybe?

[Natechs]

I agree, that makes sense. Or you could put it in an <h2> tag for a sub heading.