SEO-impact of mouseover text on header pictures

[viventuraSEO]

Hi,

what do you reckon of taking away the mouseover effect on the header pictures seen on www.viventura.de/reisen/peru?
We are thinking of eliminating the mouseover text to make User Experience even better but are worrying that our ranking might go down when doing so. Any experiences, any help is highly appreciated!
Thanks,

Benno

[Chris.Menke]

Viventura,

I'm not a Spanish speaker but I will assume that the text that shows up in the mouseover is highly relevant, informative, and well-written.  If so, eliminating that mouseover is likely to have an impact unless you use the text  somewhere else on the page (like underneath the header).  Currently, the text that shows up in the mouseover is indexed as part of the page content--and it's probably a fairly important part.

You could go into one of your lesser important category pages where such flyover text occurs and remove it from the html and test whether there is any change to traffic or rankings (or conversions) before doing it for the entire site.

[viventuraSEO]

Hi Chris,

thanks a lot for your helpful answer! This helped a lot.

May I ask, as a followup-question what you think about having slideshows in the header, as seen on http://www.viventura.de/gruppenreisen/t/viyoung?
Besides the fact that here the text keeps annoyingly disappearing on image change (certainly not good): do you have any opinion on pro and cons of image slideshows in header pictures?

Thanks again and many greetings from Germany!

[Chris.Menke]

I don't have a strong opinion but there was a good article on the topic on Searchengineland