Is this SEO Keyword Stuffing?

Question

Just wondering if you can tell me if this is keyword stuffing:

<a title="purchase glasses" href=""><img alt="purchase glasses" title="purchase glasses" /><a>
<a title="purchase socks" href=""><img alt="purchase socks" title="purchase socks" /><a>

So I thought the following could be penalized:

• 'purchase' is included with each product title & alt

• the title is the same as the title and alt

Any ideas?

If this is safe could you please give an example of keyword stuffing. Thanks!

Answer 1

This wont be a Keyword stuffing. Since you are not repeating.

Suppose if you would have used as the following then it would have been keyword stuffing

<a title="purchase glasses, Purchase glass" href=""><img alt="purchase glasses purchase" title="purchase glasses purchase" /><a>

But it is advisable that you dont repeat the same word more than 2 times, its not a google recommended process.

What you have done is reasonable.

Answer 2

This is not keyword stuffing per se, but there is a point where adding keywords becomes superfluous. Using the same text for two titles and an alt tag isn't going to make the page rank any higher for that term than just using one.

You should certainly remove one of the title attributes: using one on the image an another on the link that contains it makes no sense.

Furthermore, you are using the alt attribute incorrectly - alt text should describe the content of the image. The title (on either the image OR link) would describe the action or the page being linked to.