SEO Advice: Explaining Content First / Liquid CSS

Stugoo asks:

Thanks for this btw. Just read through the posts and you have answered most of my SEO questions. Much appreciated dude!

however I have a couple.

I heard that img Alt attributes take less precedence than text for SEO? EG, if I was to use an image as my h1 as oppose to text. Is this true?

I saw you directed a few people to your blog about certain things and one debate I raised before was this :
http://www.qbn.com/topics/571586…

How would this effect SEO?

My Advice:

Yes alt is marginally less ‘weighty’ than anchor. anyhoo why’d you put an image in a h1, it doesnt make semantic sense?

Regarding content first – if you accept the following statements to be true then you’ll understand why this is best practice:

Google gives more weight to links with good anchor text

Google gives more weight to links surrounded with on-topic text

Google only attributes weight to the first link to a page in your content (sometimes it uses the second but thats rare)

So as a result having your content first gives you the oportunity to use better anchor text from links that are inside paragraphs of content that override the links in your menus i.e. intead of ‘products / services / about your links would carrt more weight as you coudl link ‘ our range of widgets’ / ‘ learn about our wodget finding’ / ‘company name is…’

Hope that helps!

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