Great. (nitpick: separate keywords with commas)
>However, I have noticed that some web sites are putting "hidden text"
> at the bottom of their pages with the same information as in the
> "keywords" META tag.
Well, every search engine seems to have it's own policy on these things.
Some refuse to support <META>, on the grounds that they want to ignore
hidden text. According to that position they also ought to ignore
hackishly hidden text, but maybe they haven't gotten round to that.
>I'd prefer not to use this method of "hidden text" if I don't have to, but
>I don't want to exclude my content from popular search engines either.
Well, figure out (by reading docs or just trying) which don't support
<META>, and mail them your opinion. If they don't care, tell all your
friends to switch to one that does :-)
If I were you I'd refuse to mess up my pages and make my users (and image)
suffer for the sake of search engines...
-- Martijn
Email: m.koster@webcrawler.com
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