<P> tags

Are <BR> wrong..

[hitchhiker]

I'm using a db to spill out my pages, the text has been using <BR> to break. Will converting to <p></p> result in a significant PR increase or just better keyword weight?

[andreasfriedrich]

Using P [w3.org] elements in favour of BR [w3.org] elements will not lead to any gain in PR since PR is calculated based on off-page properties. It won´t increase your keyword density either.

You should use P [w3.org] elements to markup paragraphs and BR [w3.org] elements to markup line breaks. Since the BODY [w3.org] element may only contain block-level elements you need a container for your text anyway. Just putting your text directly into the BODY [w3.org] element is wrong.

Andreas