embedding keywords in HTML

[scoccaro]

Has anybody else come across naming your containing elements keyword rich names? i have done this and it has worked very well, but i am unable to find any literature about other people doing it to prove my point. suggestions?

ex: <div class="pigeonforgevacations"></div>

[AussieWebmaster]

keep testing... try getting a page up to a spot and then change names and see what happens

[jasonmun]

That is an interesting thought. But wouldn't spiders ignore HTML and CSS? I might give that a go and see what happens.

Cheers...

[AussieWebmaster]

Not having tried class naming divs I cannpt give a definitive answer but seems questionable.... other factors may have an influence

[Deadly]

Classes are used for elements that will appear several times on your page, but can not be covered by standard html elements.

<div class> has no effect in serps

---> Deadly

[Stevo]

Hi,
I bet that the search engines wouldn't want that keywords within html attributes or stuff like that had an influence on the ranking.
If a word is never ever visible to the user, SEs won't be interested in that word.
But they probably might check if you are doing some spamming.

Personally, I wouldn't try to improve a ranking by abusing a css classname for keyword stuffing.

Just my humble opinion.