HTML comment tag

crawlers read text

[yasmeencpy]

Do crawlers read texts located within html comment tag?
thanks.

[Rumbas]

Hi yasmeencpy, welcome to WebmasterWorld. I think we missed your question first time, but here goes:

>do crawlers read comment tags?

Short answer; NO, they don't.

Long answer; check this result [webmasterworld.com] I dug out of the search site at the top of the page here. Actually the site search can be a really good friend if you use it often ;)

[Hawkgirl]

I guess I've always known this, but I'm superstitious so I do it anyway.

Kind of like throwing salt over my shoulder after I knock over the shaker and it spills. It can't hurt ...

[yasmeencpy]

I'm glad that you all told me about this, i've read a few articles and a book that stated that crawlers scan text within comment tag too. Don't know what to believe anymore, different articles wrote different things. But I agree with you, comment tag does not work anymore since many people has probably abuse the use of comment tag by inserting lots of keywords within the tags to trick the crawlers. Crawlers are getting smarter and smarter, anyway, does anyone knows any algorithm that the crawlers use? Google is pretty confidential about that, no one really knows the algorithms used by these crawlers. If anyone knows, please share them with me!
Thanks.

[bcolflesh]

"...no one really knows the algorithms used by these crawlers. If anyone knows, please share them with me!"

I'll never tellllll...

Regards,
Brent