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Comments on: Can keyword rich div ids increase search engine optimization? http://websitebusinesskit.net/blog/can-keyword-rich-div-ids-increase-search-engine-optimization.html How To Create Your First Profitable Website Questions and Answers Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:30:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D (A/V) ID http://websitebusinesskit.net/blog/can-keyword-rich-div-ids-increase-search-engine-optimization.html/comment-page-1#comment-1900 D (A/V) ID Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:24:52 +0000 http://websitebusinesskit.net/blog/can-keyword-rich-div-ids-increase-search-engine-optimization.html#comment-1900 Search engines don't index elements. When the page is spidered the tags would be removed (and possibility the content within the tag ie: <script>) and the straight text parsed and indexed. Otherwise scripts, styles, etc would be indexed and yeild unfavourable results. They could however use them to navigate the page and well formed HTML will parse better and yield better results. Image tags could be indexed for image searches and links could be spidered. Search engines don’t index elements. When the page is spidered the tags would be removed (and possibility the content within the tag ie: <script>) and the straight text parsed and indexed. Otherwise scripts, styles, etc would be indexed and yeild unfavourable results.

They could however use them to navigate the page and well formed HTML will parse better and yield better results. Image tags could be indexed for image searches and links could be spidered.

]]> By: Chris G http://websitebusinesskit.net/blog/can-keyword-rich-div-ids-increase-search-engine-optimization.html/comment-page-1#comment-1901 Chris G Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:24:52 +0000 http://websitebusinesskit.net/blog/can-keyword-rich-div-ids-increase-search-engine-optimization.html#comment-1901 Search engines look for specific elements that are known to bring emphasis in web pages, like h[1-6], b, strong, and em. They skip over containers like span and div to get to the actual content. Search engines look for specific elements that are known to bring emphasis in web pages, like h[1-6], b, strong, and em. They skip over containers like span and div to get to the actual content.

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