[thelist] <h1> + images + search engines penalties

[Thierry Koblentz]

> I haven't had any problems using image replacement techniques either,
> did one for an election campaign web site and it went numero uno in less
> than a month, Google slurped up the other pages of the site and read the
> header as text - when I click on Google's text-only cache to verify, the
> display:none text is included:
> 
> .imagereplace { display:none; }
> 
> <h1><span class="imagereplace">The Campaign Thingee</span><img alt=""
> src="fancy-logo.jpg" /></h1>

Why not dropping the span element and use a simple:
<h1><img alt="" src="fancy-logo.jpg" />The Campaign Thingee</h1>

http://www.tjkdesign.com/articles/tip.asp

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