I just ran across a competitor doing some outranking and the difference seems to be some keyword stuffing in the ID= portion of CSS tags. Anyone else seeing similar?
ciml
4:34 pm on Sep 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
chinook, I honestly think there's some other reason for your competitor's success.
chinook
5:08 pm on Sep 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
well let me rephrase it so that it isn't a comparison of my site versus theirs. Does keyword stuffing in attributes (id= or class= )of css tags improve position on google. By way of interest didn't see the same kind of results on other se's.
ciml
6:15 pm on Sep 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
I can't say categorically, but it would be pretty incredible if id or class attribute values gave any serious boost in Google. Last time I ran the <a title="..."> test there was zero affect.
chinook
6:25 pm on Sep 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
<a title="..."> test there was zero affect.
That would imply a filter by google and if there was no filter for id= or class= then that would be quite significant.
ciml
6:39 pm on Sep 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
"Filter"? I would say "not a factor".
BigDave
6:45 pm on Sep 27, 2003 (gmt 0)
I would expect that google would ignore everything inside tags except what they specifically decide to use. It would be much easier for them than making a new filter each time they want to exclude something.
