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    • Eslam-yosef
      Eslam-yosef last edited by

      I've discovered few backlinks in images came from websites points to my home page. What is the value of these links?

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      • RyanPurkey
        RyanPurkey last edited by

        Hi Eslam. A link via an image is perfectly acceptable especially if they're natural links. Some sites will tend to have an abundance of these if they're things like images sharing sites, online comics, meme generators, etc. And many of these sites do perfectly well with a high percentage of image links. The bigger concern is that the site isn't spammy, see Moz's new tool that's part of OSE: http://moz.com/blog/spam-score-mozs-new-metric-to-measure-penalization-risk and http://moz.com/blog/understanding-and-applying-mozs-spam-score-metric-whiteboard-friday Cheers!

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        • Alick300
          Alick300 last edited by

          Hi Eslam,

          Image links pass page rank and have value but text links are an authority over image based links. While search engines will utilize alt and title tags to identify the content of the image your anchor text is still King.

          Remember a search engine spider can download an image file, but it can't see it like humans can. A search engine spider however loves and reads text.

          Hope this helps

          Thanks

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