[thelist] google and other search engines

[Ed McCarroll]

> 1) Will search engines index content included in comment tags?

No, nor will they index on meta keywords.

> 2) Wouldn't including content in the comments tags which doesn't also 
> appear somewhere else in the site's visible content be considered 
> "spamming", and be punished by the search engines?

I hope not.  I use comments to document my code.  If a browser is supposed to
ignore them, so should any reasonable search engine.

  www.searchenginewatch.com

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Ed McCarroll                             http://www.ComSimplicity.com
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