Image Links
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What are image links?
An image link is a graphic image that typically links to another online document, such as a webpage, PDF file, video, Excel spreadsheet, etc. Like text links, image links can also point to another location on the same page.
What is "Alt Text"?
Alt text is "alternative text" that is placed in the code for an image. It is displayed when the mouse cursor hovers over the image (fig. 1). The text is also visible if an image is unable to load (fig.2). Alt text is especially useful to people using screen readers.
What are image maps?
An image map is a graphic image containing one or more invisible clickable regions, called hotspots, allowing several hyperlinks from a single image.
For example, an image could be a map of the World with each continent split into different clickable hotspots. When a visitor clicks on one of the hotspots, they are taken to the respective online document.
Should I stay away from using image maps?
Many search engines will not crawl links inside an image map because of the potential for spam abuse. But that doesn't mean you should stay away from using image maps. To ensure search engines crawl the links contained with an image map, you should also duplicate the links as conventional text or image links somewhere else on the page and/or a sitemap.
Site Map:
- Text Link Guide - homepage
- Text Links - search engines, link traffic
- Anchor Text - variations, misspellings
- Image Links - image maps, alt text
- PageRank - increase PageRank, attribute
- Link Popularity - authority pages, link quality, quantity, relevancy, reputation
- Sitemaps - XML, Google, generators, Yahoo!
- Linkbait
- Link Seeding - link spam
- Link Exchange - bad neighborhoods, link exchange software
- Sponsored Links - PageRank
- Affiliate Links
- Link Brokers - RON, ROS, Text Link Ads
- Natural Linking - artificial linking, link triangles, www or non-www
- Broken Links - link rot, broken link testing
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