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Anyway...I often use comments, both for reminding myself why I put various divs in certain places and suchforth, and for informational purposes for people viewing source.
Do you think this is becoming more dangerous as google implements more spam filters? Am I asking for trouble even if this is innocent? I think we all know that google isn't perfect...don't want to get culled by an overzealous filter.
I use comments when laying out pages so I can easily look at the page structure when veiwing the source.
As long as you don't go overboard I would not see any problem.
I suspect that even if you do go overboard it will not be a problem. I would guess that the google HTML parser correctly discards comments, so that the inside routines that do the ranking never get a chance to see them.
Anything that appears between those comments tags is not given relevance by today's major SE. A couple of years ago there was advice to utilize the <!-- Comments Tag --> to add a little weight with one SE that was giving relevance to the tag. I've always felt that it was a myth and believe it or not, followed the rest of the crowd and tried it out. At that time I was still green and can't say that it helped or hindered, it was just part of the routine.
Comment tags are markup. They are typically used by developers to provide remarks and/or instructions relative to a block of code. They are also used by various WYSIWYG editing programs as a means to execute program specific code like FP's webbot code or DW's template code.
I kind of rank it up there with the robots revisit tag. ;)
3.2.4 Comments [w3.org]
[edited by: pageoneresults at 12:41 am (utc) on June 12, 2003]
