Hi,

 

We are wondering, if instead of using names for our tags and css styles such as "main", "wrapper", "navs" and so on, would our code be more optimised if we used names like "graphic design", "web design" and so on - using the same sort of terms that we'd use in our keywords etc.

 

Would it work better with search engines?

 

Best regards,

 

Jo

Replying to my own post :-(

 

47 views so far and no responses . . . !!!!????

 

Is this really a dumb question or is it that no one knows.

 

I notice from the code of company sites specialising in seo that they don't bother naming their tags in what you would think is an optimised way. So I suppose that answers my question.

 

But is it dumb to assume that as a robot trawls through a site it ignores the markup and just reads the content.

 

A definitive "yes" or "no" from anyone with deeper knowledge of coding and seo would be useful.

 

Regards,

 

Jo

Sorry about no reply. I guess it's because it's a question that's never been asked before, to my knowledge.

 

My guess is that the tag names have no relevance to a search engine, so it you have a hundred divs with the same class="jo-soap-products" it doesn't affect a rating.

 

This topic also sheds some light on the matter:-

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3445040.htm

 

However, the meta tags for title, keywords and description are indexed and heading tags are given more weight than p tags (but not affected by any class or id relating to them).

I agree with Wickham.