I know that I may just have to link
the image to make this happen, but I figured it was worth asking, just in case there's some other semantic markup or tips I could use...
I have a site that uses
the textual Creative Commons blurb in
the footer.
The markup is like so:
<div class="footer">
<!-- snip -->
<!-- Creative Commons License -->
<a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/80x15.png" /></a><br />This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://www.xmemphisx.com/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">xMEMPHISx.com</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</a>.
<!-- /Creative Commons License -->
</div>
Within Google Webmaster Tools,
the list of relevant keywords is heavily saturated with
the text from that blurb. For instance, 50% of my top-ten most relevant keywords (including
the site name):
[site name]
license
[keyword]
commons
creative
[keyword]
alike
[keyword]
attribution
[keyword]
I have not done any extensive testing to find out rather or not this list even matters, and so far this doesn't impact performance in any way.
The site is well designed for humans, and it is as findable as it needs to be at
the moment.
But, out of mostly curiosity: Do you have any tips for decreasing
the relevancy of
the text from
the Creative Commons footer blurb?
