I have noticed a lot of sites which get no1 rankings in google consist of mostly images (which mean a lot to humans, but not to Google!) and then some very very keyword rich text embedded in a <noscript> tag. The text does not get displayed, but Google spiders it (doing a view cache-text only confirms this)

Does anyone else do this? Any opinions?

(I know the SEO ideal is lots of displayed text, but most commercial users just want a nice picture on their front page and a bit of text)

Originally Posted by emalrola

I have noticed a lot of sites which get no1 rankings in google consist of mostly images (which mean a lot to humans, but not to Google!) and then some very very keyword rich text embedded in a <noscript> tag. The text does not get displayed, but Google spiders it (doing a view cache-text only confirms this)

Does anyone else do this? Any opinions?

(I know the SEO ideal is lots of displayed text, but most commercial users just want a nice picture on their front page and a bit of text)

Can you put an example so that we can have a look at that.

Also I would like to mention that what little text they use use it with much care like Hx tags so example would be better to comment

The site I have seen it on is www.tunbridgewellsflorists.uksw.com - do this google search: http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourc...unbridge+wells (today they are no 3)and then look at the cached text.

emal,

the example search terms you have given are unrealistic. The fact that www.tunbridgewellsflorists.uksw.com doesn't return as #1 for a search "florist tunbridge wells" sometimes, is attesting to how poorly the page functions as SEO'd.

When you do a real-world search, such as florist + eastbourne + east sussex, that domain name is nowhere to be seen.

When you include the business name in the search terms, you are doing something similar to a satuartion search i.e. looking for how many results return with the business name in it.

I would like to explain some terms for the example that you have provided.

1. The term is not very competitive ->19200 results in google
2. They have very few backlinks but from a PR 4 web page of http://www.flowersearch.co.uk/ providing them PR 2 and for such a less competitive terms they can rank well. [Avoid the stuff G does not show all backlinks]
3. The person on no 1 at this moment is also just have a single backlink from an excite site and again the same implies as the competition for the term is low and we can rank quite well for them very easily.

Thanks and hope this helps.
Shabbir Bhimani