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Is p tag a benefit for kw text?

Does the p <p> tag improve kw benefit relative to unenclosed text?

         

glyph

6:48 pm on Oct 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Have inherited site (20 pages) with lots of blocks of kw containing text that are either only enclosed by table tags <td> or lie outside of other tags, e.g. p, table, h, etc.

Question: Is there any Google SERPS benefit to encapsulation in <p></p> tags? I.e. worth going through site to update everywhere? Larger question is, outside of h and a tags, does it matter much what tags general kw text is in?
Thanks, and WebmasterWorld is water in a desert of noise <g>.

Mohamed_E

7:12 pm on Oct 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Glyph! Glad you like what you see.

I cannot conceive of any reason why Google would give extra points to keywords in a <p>keyword</p> context. Never even heard the idea before.

Google cares about content, it helps if your HTML is valid enough for Google to be able to extract said content.

Validation to a strict DTD has, in the opinion of some people here (myself included) many advantages. Improved Google ranking is not one of them.

glyph

7:36 pm on Oct 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Mohammed_E,
>I cannot conceive of any reason why Google would give >extra points to keywords in a <p>keyword</p> context. >Never even heard the idea before.

Not surprised to hear a weird idea <g>.

So it wouldn't matter if kw text following an H1 tag were in a p container or a td container, for example?
Thanks for the help and the welcome!

Mohamed_E

8:09 pm on Oct 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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glyph,

I thought that I had answered your question :) but since you seem to want a more explicit reply, here goes ;)

Q. So it wouldn't matter if kw text following an H1 tag were in a p container or a td container, for example?

A. It would not matter at all (IMHO, of course).

On a more serious note, take everything you read here (or anywhere else other than in the standards documents) with a grain of salt. By and large I see more information than misinformation here, and most misinformation quickly gets flagged. But still, caveat emptor.

glyph

9:23 pm on Oct 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Mohammed_E,
Yes, you did answer my question, I just have a lot of questions <g>. Thanks for your patience.

>..grain of salt
I have high blood pressure from all my grains of salt, thanks <vbg>!