Re: Accessibility/SEO and IDs?

I have heard rumors that due to the heavy use of specific ID's such as
'header', 'footer', and 'content', certain search engines may begin
looking for them more heavily in the future to understand what is in a
page.  It's sort of a developing SEO standard if you will...?

For now, though, I'd say there is no difference except to help you and
those who need to look at your markup later.

Jim

On 3/22/06, Seb Frost <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there any reason (other than to make your own work/maintenance easier) to
> use semantic IDs on your webpages?
>
> In other words, does <div id="header"> benefit anyone other than the coder
> over <div id="h">?
>
> I'm all for cutting down on any bytes that don't need to be sent to the
> browser, and if working by myself I'd quickly get used to shorthands like
> this, and they wouldn't proove to be a maintenance headache at all, for me.
>
> But is there a benefit to longer IDs?  Will search engines pick up on <ul
> id="list_of_shopping"> or is <ul id="l"> just as good?
>
> cheers
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