Image Link

[pauledwards]

If I have an image that is well optimiswed for a keyword that the page it is on is ranking for but i put a no follow in the image link - is this going to lose the value of the image on that page.

A strange question i know but this image i have on my homepage is optimised around a keyword, the image is also a link but when i changed the link in the image to no follow i seem to have dropped rankings for that keyword. Probably consicidence but i thought i would throw this question out there and get some views?

[AlanMosley]

I would not think so, but you may of been getting credit for linking to a reletive authoritive site. was the link to a an authoritive site? if so, no-folloing may have robed you of that credit