SEO code to text ratio

**Sohlside** · 08-04-2006, 03:14 PM

Questions:
1) should a portfolio site have more code than text content since it is a portfolio and largely contains graphics?
2) some pages on my site have mostly content and some mostly code. is there an average i should be aiming for or do I need to get higher content ratios on every page?

**Fragalot** · 08-04-2006, 11:48 PM

well, google only looks at the first 256 lines or something (iirc)
so you'd might want to keep the line count on all pages to that.

also, it's preferrable to have a good code-text ration on all pages.
if there is more code on the less important pages, that's not that bad.

if it contains graphics, that's a sideeffect, google only looks at the code & text when it comes to crawling your page.

**Sean** · 08-05-2006, 01:16 PM

When using Images its very important to use the ALT="" for describing your images.

**Sohlside** · 08-05-2006, 05:45 PM

thx for the info guys. i'll beback with more dumb questions. wait here.

**Fragalot** · 08-05-2006, 09:56 PM

well, the alt="" is ALWAY's required. even if it's empty to pass the validation.

so why not put in a short discription of the image while ur at it

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