November, 2008 archive

Which is better for search engines: plain text or alt attributes?

Which is better in links from the search engines’ point of view: plain text or images with an alt attribute that says the same thing? For example, is this:

<a href="">This is a link</a>

better than this?

<a href=""><img src="" alt="This is a link"/></a>

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