Comment Tag

Is it considered?

[JudgeJeffries]

Do Google or any other SE's take account of comment tags?

[mil2k]

NO as far as i Know.

[martinibuster]

Hi Judge,
Good question. Please see this thread [webmasterworld.com] from five days ago, in particular message#12

[edited by: martinibuster at 2:01 pm (utc) on April 28, 2003]

[JudgeJeffries]

That's what I thought but....theres alway one!.......why does WPG make a fuss about having them stuffed. Those guys are not entirely stupid so why does it form part of their page analysis and do they know something?

[Mohamed_E]

Theoretical answer:

Search engines parse the text before analysing it, and it is (to me) inconceivable that they should do anything with comments other than discard them.

Empirical answer:

Several crawls ago I put a comment in my home page with a unique string. Goggle does not find that string.

When the theoretical and empirical answers are the same I think you can trust them :)