IMAGES AND SEO
In computer science, an “object” is a thing that is defined almost entirely by context and by outside-to-inside indicators — eg. anchor text, context of anchor, and anything at all about peer files in the same physical location, eg. meta-data in relational databases.
“Identity”, therefore, is determined by the combination of “tags” present, and the potential object diversity is a direct function of the number of combinable tags. But the machine that gives out the tags doesn’t have discernment (does not NEED any discernment) since all that needs to happen to keep the whole system humming is… nothing.
Some kinds of objects are grouped together into categories. For example, from OBJECTS >> IMAGES >> JPGs, and not much deeper than that. The object only has to “satisfy” the requestor in order to perform at nominal. So long as the requestor client reports no “error”, the object will be assumed to have performed as required by the requestor, and to have been whatever the spec indicates for the object type… @
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October 1st, 2006 at 12:24 am
[…] As some of you may know, images have been a big part of my SEO research. I have even made several blogs for the purpose of experimentation in image SEO. Voodoo Blog was the first such blog. The Definarium came later. I used these blogs (and others) to test the effects of anchor text, ALT tags and other contextual variables on the treatment of images by the Search Engine. […]