Coding Forum

**kali** · 09-17-2003, 08:37 PM

Hey fellas

I need to know how to insert (hidden) words into my HTML so that my page will show into a certain site's searches - you know, the most common search words.
I'd like for these words to influence the searches people make but that they are not visible to them.

Any suggestions? I know there's a way, just don't know how.
Thanks!!!!!

*My whole HTML code is inside of one table.

**praveen** · 09-18-2003, 06:09 AM

one way is to ave them inside comment tags,

2. have them as alt tags for images 0px*px in size.

but that will increase the size of yourpages and if the engines get to know that they may drop ur site altogether

that is not an advisable idea.

**kali** · 09-18-2003, 10:57 PM

Thanks Praveen

This is for an auction listing, not for my site.
Will comment tags increase the size too?

**david** · 09-19-2003, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by kali

Will comment tags increase the size too?

Yes. Everything in your code will add to the size of the page. It won't add much, though. Each character is 1 byte, so it's an extra 1KB for 1024 characters.

**Reactor** · 09-19-2003, 05:36 PM

Good idea of tricking the auction site into loving your listing with all the hidden keywords...lol

**Omega** · 09-19-2003, 06:15 PM

If you're speaking of eBay, using comment tags prolly won't work. I've tried this and it doesn't seem to matter to the engine. However, you can make the text white, or the same color as your background, then type out the keywords. They won't be immediately visible, but the engine will find them.

**kali** · 09-19-2003, 11:55 PM

Thanks, everyone!

Omega...err...yeah...that's the one I'm talking about.

That's a great tip!!! thanks!

**worldwind** · 09-20-2003, 12:44 AM

Sorry that I can't help you, but I don't have a clue.

**kali** · 09-20-2003, 01:32 AM

Well, thanks for posting anyway and welcome to the wonderful world of WT...there are some nice folks here!

**gamma** · 09-20-2003, 02:54 PM

Hello.

Probably, you may want to use <meta> tags. For example:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Site</title>
<meta name="description" content="This is the site about video games.">
<meta name="keywords" content="apparel, online shopping, auction">
</title>
<body>
<p>Some text.</p>
</body>
</html>

<meta name="description" ... > and
<meta name="keywords" ... > are valuable tags for search engines and are not shown on the page.

Best regards,
Andrey Lomakin.

**Omega** · 09-22-2003, 02:36 PM

No problem, Kali.