Search Engine Question

[Cheng]

Hi Everybody.

I have a question about the page content reading of search engines.
Let's say for example that the page content has an ALT tag like this one:

<p class="alt">Example Text-Example Text-Example Text</p>

And the mata tag description contains the same text like in this meta tag:

<meta name="Description" content="Example Text-Example Text-Example Text/>

Will the search engine robots read the ALT tag as page content?
Or another example would be if the page content text has the same color as the page background.
The text would be invisible to the eye but would a search engine robot read it as page content text?
Please someone explain this to me as search engines are still a mystery to me.

Thanks in advance.

[Twey]

The meta tag would be ignored. The <p> would be treated as a <p>. Giving it a class doesn't change it into a new tag, and there is no <ALT> tag.

[Cheng]

Hi Twey.

Thanks for your reply.
I'm not sure if you understand what I meant.
Another example:
If I have a meta tag keyword called company.

<meta name="Keywords" content="company" />

The search enginge robot scans the page content to see if the keyword is relevant to the page content.

<h1 class="alt">company </h1>

This html tag class="alt" makes the word company invisible but it is in the html code of the page content.
What I want to know is if the search enginge robot reads the word company as an relevant keyword even though it is invisible?
The search engine robot would definitly read it as a relevant keyword if the html code were like this

:<h1>company </h1>

But I'm not sure if this is also the case with the class="alt"> html tag.

Thanks again.

[Twey]

The search enginge robot scans the page content to see if the keyword is relevant to the page content.

No, most search engines nowadays totally ignore meta tags for the purposes of keywords.

This html tag class="alt"

That's an attribute.

What I want to know is if the search enginge robot reads the word company as an relevant keyword even though it is invisible?

I should think so, yes, in most cases.

[Cheng]

Hi Twey.

That's all I wanted to know.
I just thought of an online program where you can check your tags like relevancy etc.
If this program will say that it is a relevant keyword than it probably works.
How about if the word got the same color as the page background.
The word is present but invisible.
Someone once told me that search engines get pissed of if you do something like this.
Is this true?
I'm asking this not to fool the search engine but if you got a page that is totaly flash for example the robots can't read the text content in the flash file so I thought if I put the text in an alt attribute it might work.
By the way I noticed that the search result mainly come up with the search term in the page titles.

Thanks again for your help.

[Twey]

if you got a page that is totaly flash

Then you're in trouble, since people without Flash can't view your site