ALT vs. TITLE for images

[Linkster]

Tommy as you know - there are about 100 little things that affect the rankings of a page in the SE's - this is one of those things that seems like an easy way to improve that rank - but as usual - nothing is as easy as it seems.
For the original question on Mozilla browsers - seems the TGP software could be written to include a little description "on mouseover" like many of them do.

[GeorgeTH]

Originally Posted by Linkster

For the original question on Mozilla browsers - seems the TGP software could be written to include a little description "on mouseover" like many of them do.

I know that! BUT: I'd really like to keep one or the other, ALT or TITLE, for obvious se reasons...
Of course I could write the code with an additional 'mouseover' procedure, but they are so character heavy that it would add too much extra code to the page (I assume ~100bytes per link!). That would mean I'd have to drop probably 60-80 links from my daily list in order to stay around the 100k cut-off for se-spiders = that's a huge trade off for the minority of Modzilla users! [Currently my pages are already 106 and 116 kb respectively, a little above the cut-off, but the bottom is mostly unimportant stuff not helping any ranking.]

Catch 22?

[Linkster]

George - I really thing you need to stop thinking about that cutoff - Im very serious when I say I can prove that links up around the 240k page size do get counted - we've tested this many times over the last 5 years and it still holds true. Its a good "recommendation" from Google to hold them around 100k and I know their cache only shows 101k(for server load) but based on Yahoo and DMOZ links, I dont think anyone suffers with links that exist down in the 200k region
I know I have great linkbacks from GG, Tommy, Jay and loads others that are on pages way larger than 200k

[GeorgeTH]

Originally Posted by Linkster

George - I really thing you need to stop thinking about that cutoff - Im very serious when I say I can prove that links up around the 240k page size do get counted - we've tested this many times over the last 5 years and it still holds true. Its a good "recommendation" from Google to hold them around 100k and I know their cache only shows 101k(for server load) but based on Yahoo and DMOZ links, I dont think anyone suffers with links that exist down in the 200k region
I know I have great linkbacks from GG, Tommy, Jay and loads others that are on pages way larger than 200k

I honestly did not know that!
I was constantly worried about it due to my pages showing only as 101k on Google and Yahoo - so I figured that's as much as the spider actually spiders... CHEERS!