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Old 03-14-2007, 11:51 AM   #11

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I just did this, and i must say its a pretty neat trick
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Is there any reason why you would want to turn the welcome message into an image?
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as i understand it, a search engine reads the top bit of every page on your site. if you have text welcome headers it getting that text on everypage it visits.

if you have a image there, it skips the image and gets all the good content text in the thread title and post. basically

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So, why change your welcome headers to an image?

The same exact text is being read on every single page by the spiders who see it. Because of it's prominent placement on forums, they are apt to use it to describe each of your page.

We started seeing blurbs from our welcome header messages show up in search engine "descriptions" of individual pages, and it said nothing about the content of the page to people who might find us.

It also dillutes the value of other keywords on each forumhome, or thread display, because they show up on every single page.

Spiders can not read the text in images (yet! :spin: ), so we should take advantage of that to keep content relevent keywords as important as we can.
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Oh, okay. Wow... it makes so much sense. Well, I guess I will be following suit. I'll get a new one up there tonight.
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I'm having fun creating the image for my new board... what do you think?
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looks nice man, with the mapping you have to do, i suppose it couldnt be a animated file could it?
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I've settled on a final product, and you should see it live.

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I opted to link the whole image, rather than do image slices.


Animated? Like what?
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muy bueno, i like it!
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I saw yours a minute ago RM and I really like it. Well done.
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After viewing this thread I decided to make my own. What do you guy think? Any suggestions?

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