I was recently looking at the code for a website that featured numerous divs in the head of the page. Each div contained a paragraph of keyword rich text and a unique id. Only one of these divs was called into the body using javascript. I was wondering what everyone else though of this. It's an interesting way to include content, but then again it still feels a little "grey" to me. Does anyone know if any problems that this may create?

Sounds like a rather spammy thing to do. I wouldn't risk.

Only one of these divs was called into the body using javascript.

Search engine spiders don't execute javascript, so they wouldn't see this text in any event.

I didn't know you could put divs in the head section.

Search engine spiders don't execute javascript, so they wouldn't see this text in any event.

Right. They couldn't read the one paragraph displayed in the body, but they would read the other entries in the head. I was mainly wondering if this is likely to create a penalty for hidden content, etc.

Right. They couldn't read the one paragraph displayed in the body, but they would read the other entries in the head. I was mainly wondering if this is likely to create a penalty for hidden content, etc.

I've seen keyword-stuffed comment tags, and I don't have a clue whether engines penalize for these since they don't read them. But the intent is clear. On a hand check of a site, I'm sure such comment tags wouldn't make a good impression.

Here, I'm not sure that the engines do read the text you describe in the head, and it's hard for me to say whether the intent is to hide the text or not. Do users ever see this text, and is it for any communication purpose, or is it just plain keyword stuffing? Is the javascript write function (assuming that's what it is) ever triggered by site visitors?