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Humans vs. Search Engines
Human visitors and search engine robots that visit websites and index information about them look for different things in a page. People like to see an attractive layout with nice pictures and graphics, animation, easy-to-locate navigation, and friendly greetings like ���Welcome to Annie���s Online Shop��� at the top of a page. Search engines, on the other hand, like sites that have lots of textual content, good site structure (sitemaps, consistent linking style), and a meaningful phrase such as ���Chicago Area Florist��� as the heading of a page. While search engines can read the ���alt image��� tags of graphics, they cannot ���look at��� pictures the way a human visitor can, and far prefer text.
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