 Banner Links, Do the search engines see banner links? |
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 Jan 31 2004, 01:00 PM
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 HR 2  Group: Active Members Posts: 10 Joined: 29-January 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:05 AM From: Cotati, CA Member No.: 2,159  |
If a website uses one of your animated gif or jpeg banners to link to your site is it also necessary for them to add a text link in order for the search engines to see it?
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Jan 31 2004, 01:23 PM
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 Psycho Mom  Group: Admin Posts: 6,124 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 PM From: Columbia, SC Member No.: 3 |
HI Ken-
It depends. If the banner is a direct link to the site, it will count for link pop. If there is a tracking mechanism (there often is) where the link is redirected through a counter, it likely won't be picked up. In that case, you'd want a plain text link as well, although that defeats the intention of counting the clicks! |
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Jan 31 2004, 01:23 PM
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 Work is Fun  Group: Moderator Posts: 4,642 Joined: 31-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 PM From: Neath, South Wales, UK Member No.: 110 |
it depends on the way the link is set up, is it is a straigh <a href= link then yes, take a look at the backlinks of some of the top sites, and many of them are paid for banner ads (well its one way of getting around selling page rank (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) ) lol
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Feb 1 2004, 05:53 PM
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 High Rankings Advisor Group: Admin Posts: 29,201 Joined: 21-July 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 12:05 PM From: Ashland, MA Member No.: 2 |
The search engines have no problem following links wrapped around graphical images.
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Feb 1 2004, 10:03 PM
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HR 2 Group: Active Members Posts: 10 Joined: 29-January 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 09:05 AM From: Cotati, CA Member No.: 2,159 |
Thanks all.
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Feb 3 2004, 03:06 PM
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 HR 2 Group: Active Members Posts: 16 Joined: 3-February 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 PM From: UK Member No.: 2,285 |
Great question, I seem to learn something on every post!
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Feb 4 2004, 05:30 PM
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HR 1 Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 4-February 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 PM Member No.: 2,309 |
Isn't the idea similar to search engines being able to find images or video clips where there is no tex per se?
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Feb 4 2004, 05:50 PM
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 HR 7 Group: Active Members Posts: 2,333 Joined: 13-August 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 10:05 AM From: Phoenix, AZ Member No.: 501 |
Welcome to the forum, atebark! (IMG:http://www.highrankings.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/bye1.gif)
Somewhat but image crawling is different than link crawling. Basically a search engine will crawl any link such as <a href=""></a> whether it is a link behind a graphic or text. An image crawler simply crawls images and adds thumbnail shots to their index with a link to the actual image. I think a image crawler can tell what an image is about by either the file name of the image itself or the text surrounding the image, not exactly sure but usually when you do an image search, you will notice alot of images that are named similar to your search. |
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Feb 8 2004, 06:10 AM
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 HR 2 Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 7-February 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 PM From: Austin Texas Member No.: 2,421 |
Most often, if given the option, I'll have another site put both my banner thats linked and a text link below it, any added benefit to this or should I just stick with the cool banner. ( I don't " count clicks " , just want traffic ).
- Ray |
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Feb 8 2004, 10:05 AM
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 Convert Me! Group: Admin Posts: 17,377 Joined: 17-August 03 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 11:05 AM Member No.: 551 |
Both is the best of both worlds, if the folks linking to you will agree to do that.
Personally, I'm partial to text links. But that's just my preference. As far as the search engines are concerned, either or will work just fine. |
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Feb 8 2004, 03:53 PM
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HR 2 Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 7-February 04 User's local time: Feb 9 2010, 01:05 PM From: Austin Texas Member No.: 2,421 |
Cool, thanks for the heads up !
- Ray |
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