New Tag I've Never Seen

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New Tag I've Never Seen

Lazy_Cat

2:04 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

A goggle search for my #1 keywords: widgets, produces 221,000 sites. The #4 site has an interesteing tag I've never seen:

</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#8fa8cd>
<A NAME="CIWOPO"></A>

I don't get the: <A NAME="CIWOPO"></A> tag.

Any help?

buckworks

2:11 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

That looks like internal page navigation.

Somewhere down the page you'll likely find the matching <a href="#CIWOPO">Some Text or Graphic Here</a>

Something like "Back to Top", perhaps?

Lazy_Cat

2:33 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

Yup, it was to obvious for my 'forest for the trees' mentality.

BTW, this same #4 site uses 50+ keywords, some of which are "name dropper" kinds of keywords.

Question: Keyword Tag dead, right?
Question: most meta tags dead, right?

I've been told that the keyword tag is pretty much a thing of the past and that SERP's are looking for content and description tag matches, and could care less about any other meta tags except for robots txt tags.

I am assuming that the Title tag has still got to be packed with relevant content text......

OrlandoTodd

9:16 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

The Meta Keyword Tag is not as important as it once was, but still a very valid tag.

Meta tags are used, if you are doing internet marketing, use them. But content is king. I guess quality link development would be.. queen.

Title tag has still got to be packed with relevant content text...
Yep.

digitalv

9:19 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

You can name links, tables, rows in a table, whatever like that for the purpose of showing/hiding them in layers by doing something like ...

document.getElementById('CIWOPO').style.display='none';

mipapage

9:28 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but for the above JS example, you would need to use id="whatever" rather than name="whatever".

For name, I would imagine that you could use:
document.getElementByName('CIWOPO').style.display='none';

Lazy_Cat

10:14 pm on Mar 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

Oh Oh.
Got my newbie hat on here.

Please educate me about this JS and why it might be useful for SEO.....

Why would I want to show/hide these elements.

(I have to remind myself that there is no such thing as a stupid question ---> I am pretty much in awe of you guys that are hip to this stuff. I really appreciate anything you can share.

Larryhat

2:12 pm on Mar 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hello Goggle Cat (and others)

I webmaster my own site only. On one page, I have a
list of sources (books, journals etc.) for my personal
studies.

Some sources are really good, others less so. I had
to list one real jerk, because he is so well known.

I put in the tag <JERK> just before his citation
and </JERK> just after it.

I tested this out on IE, Netscape 4.7 and Firefox.
Those browsers simply ignored it.

Anyone reading my HTML code will get the point.
Some might blow their coffee thru their noses.

Best wishes

- Larry

Big_Balou

10:51 pm on Mar 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Lazy_Cat,

sometimes if you are trying to get onpage stuff just right there may be things you want a SE spider to see that would not neccesarily benefit your visitor therefore you hide it in a layer or position it with CSS off screen.

bufferzone

11:04 pm on Mar 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Com on guys and dolls, Am I missing some thing her.

The <A NAME="CIWOPO"></A> is a simple bookmark anchor. If your page is long, you can creat a number of bookmark anchor�s with each headline. With these bookmarks you can link down on your page the link looks like this <a href=http://www.sitename.com/pagenavm.htm# CIWOPO this link will open pagename.htm and jump down to the CIWOPO bookmark

Or am I completely in the dark and have totally missed the point of this question