: SEO effects of wrapping thumbnails and titles with one common tag I've tried searching and read the Questions that may already have your answer list, but couldn't find an answer. This is
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This is about a category page that lists products in it, you click one and go to the actual product page (not sure if there's a common term for that kind of pages). I worked with a person some time ago who claimed that it's better to, where possible, wrap the thumbnails and item names with one common parent anchor <a> tag.
Here's an example:
<a href="/product1">
<img src="/product1.jpg" alt="Product One">
<h4>Product One</h4>
</a>
vs. the traditional
<a href="/product1">
<img src="/product1.jpg" alt="Product One">
</a>
<h4>
<a href="/product1">Product One</a>
</h4>
Let's say we can style them both equally and there's no difference from that perspective, what would be better for SEO?
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i would say, use the second variant. The first variant sends mixed signals from a title, img alt and h4. The clearest variant would be:
<section id="p1" class="div p">
<h4 class="h4 p">Product One</h4>
<img class="img p" src="/product1.jpg" alt="Product One">
<a class="a p" href="/product1" title="Product One">Product One</a>
</section>
In this variant you send pure signals from all of three entities: heading, image and link
When there's no anchor text, most crawlers default to looking at the image's alt tags for a description.
If you're not using alt tags, I would imagine most crawlers default to scraping just the anchor text.
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