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

Vlad Alexander (XStandard) vlad.alexander at xstandard.com
Wed May 24 09:04:50 CDT 2006


> Does anyone have any reason to believe that placing
> images inside of header tags would have an affect
> on search engine placement?
The following markup is taken from yahoo.com:

<h1><img src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/
i/ww/beta/y3.gif" border=0 width=232  height=44
alt="Yahoo!">

So search engines themselves uses images in headers.

Regards,
-Vlad
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