Optimising My Website Link Containers

[James77]

Hi,

I'm looking at my links containers and trying to optimise them.

I would be greatful if anyone can give me some feedback on my plan for perfect optimaisation.

My links are constructed as follows:

I have a two states:
1/. A Non Hover state which contains an Image and Text
2/. A Hover state which contains a bit more text - I do this as containing full text on the non hover state would not be good for users and would look ugly as well.

Here's an example block of the HTML - as you can see from the URL, its quite a deep page level. From the URL and Alt / Titles the Page I am Linking to is about: "The Royal Hotel Accommodation New York Holidays".

I Just a bit confused on how I should apply ALT and Title (Titles in particular) attributes given the nested DiV's etc - I can apply these to parent level, or apply all levels, or apply them to a mix.

Also is there any obvious thinks you can think of I am missing that may help onsite SEO?

Thanks in Advance

CURRENT UNOPTIMISED CODE:

                   The Royal Hotel
           
           
               
                    New York Holidays Accommodation
                    The Royal Hotel
                    

MY OPTIMISED CODE (Adding Title and Alt attributes):

                   The Royal Hotel
           
           
               
                    New York Holidays Accommodation
                    The Royal Hotel
                    

[ReneReinholdt]

Hi there

a quick reply from me

1: if I were you I would make my links in text and not in images. If you do have to add images avoid names such as read more. There are Java Script tricks you could use if you must have images. Such as replacing text with an image on "dom ready" there is no reason to show google an image if it's only a "read more" button anyhow.

2: If I make a list of links, make it a list, don't do divs if a list makes more sence eg:

• link 1

• link 2

• link 3

3: Since speed matters: If you can avoid images do it. If not; Use CSS sprites and the background property. If You must use img tags, always add a height and a width, that way the browser won't have to read the image size and the page will render quicker.