Image carousel
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I have a site with a large image carousel on the top of the homepage. it rotates about 5 images. Most of the images have copy on the left and the image on the right. Right now the designer has kept it one large image. If convert the copy to HTML and keep only the image on the right the actual image. This copy on the left will now get crawled? Is there any downside to this? I am thinking this is a better option than keeping it one large image.
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Thanks for the help
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Ahh I am slow. I understand now. What you are proposing sounds perfect. No down sides.
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What I am trying to do is make sure the copy in the image is pulled out and turned into HTML copy. I don't want it all one large image so that it can be crawled. I only want to keep the parts that need to be an image the image and any copy in the carousel readable.
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Hey Mark,
If I understand you, you are just swapping images out and rotating them through?
If so that sounds like you are on the right track. If you use SEOMOZ's on page analysis tool for keywords you can see the alt tags coming up if you are using them to target keywords plus if you are adding captions to the text, you've now got added content.
Images can be a great way to get added traffic coming to your site too. When you are naming your images make sure you use hyphens to separate words. word-word-word.jpg etc..
Adam
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